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and a monumental staircase, which led past a platform and remains which, in May 2007, Netzer identified as the probable tomb of King Herod. Netzer found the sarcophagus "shattered into hundreds of pieces", as described by
Josephus, who wrote that it was done "by Jewish dissidents during the first revolt against the Romans between AD 66 and 72."
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University's Institute of Archaeology on the subject of Herod's palaces at Herodium and Jericho. He became a senior lecturer at the university in 1981 and a professor in 1990. The subjects he taught combined architecture and archaeology. From 1985-93, he directed the Hebrew
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winter palace containing a number of swimming pools and gardens. This is the major archaeological site to have survived from that period in Jewish history. The complex includes a structure built 70-50 BCE and identified in 1998 by Netzer as a synagogue, which has been contested, but if proven true
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Herodium, excavating the palace structures. He resumed work on the dig from 1997β2000, and again from 2000β2010. Beginning in 2006, excavations revealed a ramp winding around the hill from the lower palace complex and stadium. Along its path were discovered a theater
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October 2013, archaeologists Joseph Patrich and Benjamin Arubas challenged the identification of the tomb as that of Herod. According to Patrich and Arubas, the tomb is too modest to be Herod's and has several unlikely features. Roi Porat, who replaced Netzer as excavation leader after the
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In 1972, he began excavating at the huge palace complex of
Herodium, located in the desert outside Bethlehem. His first phase of work continued to 1987, as he excavated palace structures. He returned to the dig from 1997β2000, and again from 2000β2010. The ancient Jewish historian,
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Israeli educators Joseph and Puah Menczel. Netzer was reported to have changed his surname from Menczel to Netzer because of the complexity and recurring mistakes in spelling his name in the Hebrew language. He graduated with a degree in architecture from the
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Netzer was head architect for the restoration and excavation of the Jewish
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Netzer initiated and directed excavations at several building projects of Herod the Great, the ancient king of Judea. In the mid-1960s, Netzer was co-architect, together with I. Dunayevsky, of the excavations at
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