King Herod's Tomb

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2009

⏱️ 17 minutes

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King Herod wasn't the world's worst ruler. Yet seventy years after his death his tomb was desecrated and forgotten. Learn more about the life and death of King Herod (along with the rediscovery of his tomb) in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HouseofWorks.com.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.9	I'm Katie Lambert, and I'm Sarah Dowdy.
0:47.6	And Sarah read a really cool article that got us thinking about King Herod of all people.
0:52.1	I did.
0:53.1	I had a few months back, National Geographic had a really neat article about King Herod's
0:57.8	tomb, and then recently Smithsonian just put out one.
1:01.8	And I got a thinking we need to talk about this.
1:04.5	Historical celebrity.
1:06.7	So most of us know King Herod from his biblical reputation, which is about the massacre of
1:11.9	the innocents, where in preparation for the birth of the Messiah, he had all the male
1:17.4	infants in Bethlehem killed.
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