Sunday, October 17, 2010

Pictures: King Herod's VIP Box Excavated

Pictures: King Herod's VIP Box Excavated

Painted "windows" and blocks of color—as well as a crude wall (center) added after the theater had been closed—add drama to King Herod's royal theater box at Herodium, site of one of his palaces and his mausoleum in what's now the West Bank. (See "King Herod's Tomb Unearthed Near Jerusalem, Expert Says.")


First revealed in 2008, the VIP chamber has now been fully excavated, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced in late September. The royal box once loomed over the "nosebleed" seats at the king's circa-15 B.C. private amphitheater.

While ruling over Judea, the southernmost division of ancient Palestine, Herod wanted "to put Herodium on the map," said archaeologist Ehud Netzer, who discovered Herod's mausoleum, also at Herodium, in 2007.

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