From the newsfeeds: Tomb of Herod (don\'t believe the hype)

[Jona Lendering]

Twice on the Newsfeed today: the Tomb of Herod has been found:
link from old RAT
link from old RAT
But that's not news at all: Flavius Josephus already said that Herod was buried at the Herodion. The coverage in Haaretz was better:
[url:1f3o2plu]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Herod&itemNo=856784[/url]

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

all well and nice, but i still do not believe one bit of it untill they come up with at least an inscription about Herod somewhere on the mausoleum/sarcophagus itself.......

M.VIB.M.

[Sergey Lenkov]

If it's of interest to somebody - on Russian news TV programme were showed short interview with one Jewish Russian-speaking archeologist, who participated in these excavations and he said that inside of the tomb there are many signs, that the tomb was destroyed in the Ancient times - many broken things - so it's obvious that there's no remains of Herod and no treausers described by Josephus. Which is sad.

[Robert Vermaat]

Great pictures of the site:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,21444,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/22cl8f
http://tinyurl.com/2xlfz4