Likely from a Herodian building project.

One of “the largest and most complex water systems” of its time.

With help from U.S. military veterans.

The civic building is the largest of its kind discovered in Israel.

One of Herod’s many architectural achievements.

His ancestry was questionable, but he may have kept kosher.

Discovered thanks to 94-year-old aerial photographs.

Elaborate Roman-style tiles.

Piecing together the fragments.

At the instigation of a 16th-century sultan.

A unique artifact.

Herod’s ambivalent relationship with Judaism.

Fancier than mosaics.

Herodian-era luxury.