Archaeologists unearth Herod family tombs
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-21 07:50
Archaeologist Ehud Netzer poses with the remains of a sarcophagus believed to be King Herod's, during a press conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Wednesday. AP |
An Israeli archaeologist said on Wednesday he had unearthed what he believed were the 2,000-year-old remains of two tombs which had held a wife and daughter-in-law of the biblical King Herod.
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