Tomb believed to be Herod's found decorated with lavish art

Thursday, November 20, 2008

HERODIUM, West Bank -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

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