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COMMENTS: King of the Jews
The last time Holy Land archeology made news was in February (text link) when the Discovery Channel claimed to have found The Last Tomb of Jesus Christ. Nothing so grand this time, so only NBC assigned a reporter to the latest find. After 35 years of digging in the ruins of Herodium, eight miles south of Jerusalem, a staircase has been discovered cut into a hill leading to a coffin. Professor Ehud Netzer claimed it was the tomb of King Herod, the Biblical villain in the Massacre of the Innocents. The problem, noted Martin Fletcher, is that historians depict Herod's bier as being "solid gold, studded with precious stones." This was "just a slab of stone with broken carvings."
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