Herod's Temple, which was the second Jewish temple constructed in Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Romans when they sacked the city in A.D. 70, following a months-long siege.

This road "essentially served as the main thoroughfare of Jerusalem at the time," the IAA said. Pilgrimage Road connecting the City of David and the Temple Mount gates.

Palm Sunday, the commemoration of Jesus' final entry into Jerusalem before his crucifixion, death and resurrection, is also the start of Holy Week. It's a full-circle moment for the ministry of ...

In the end, Jerusalem was razed, along with the temple, and the Jewish sacrificial cult was snuffed out. A new Judaism, rabbinic Judaism, was born out of the ashes. Three other scribes were paying ...

A rare and unique First Temple-era stone seal inscribed with a name in paleo-Hebrew script has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on August ...

This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora.