Submitted by ALEXEY RONKIN
Herodium. “Mountain of the Little Paradise”) is a truncated-cone-shaped hill, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast of Bethlehem, in the Judaean Desert, West Bank. Herod the Great built a palace fortress and a small town at Herodium, between 23 and 15 BCE, and is believed to have been buried there.[2] Herodium is 758 meters (2,487 ft) above sea level,[3] the highest peak in the Judaean Desert.
Rishon Le-Tzion, Gush Dan, Israel
Category: Monuments
Archaeology of Irodion
