He Thinks He's Found The Tomb Of The King
An Israeli archaeologist is said to have found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem, at a hilltop compound south of the city. Hebrew University says the discovery was made by one of its professors who has spent 35 years working at a site called Herodium, where Herod had built a palace compound. Herod became the ruler of the Holy Land under the Romans around 74 BC and died in 4 BC. The wall he built around the Old City of Jerusalem during the time of the Jewish Second Temple is the one that can be seen today.
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I'm getting a sudden image of a jolly Egyptian and a rough and woolly archaeologist getting giddy because they're digging in the wrong place.
Nice one, Bart,
I hope they don't try pyramid selling!
Cheers
David
Cool. There was a documentary about Herod on last week.
Mummy watched it.
(I didn't. Had important Bear stuff to do...)
;@}
There's a joke there, beary. Has to do with the double meaning of Mummy.
Hi BTBear,
Did it keep Mummy wrapped up? Seriously, though, was it a good show?
Cheers
David
Hi Bart and BTBear,
Have you Herod the one about .....
Keep smiling, all
David
I liked the archaeologist's speculation that the sarcophagus was smashed and the body removed seventy years later by Jewish rebels against Rome. Those ancient hatreds: makes it all very vivid.
Can't think of a terrible pun to get out of this... but then you can have tomb much of a good thing?
G'day Chertiozhnik,
Ah yes, ancient hatreds - all those wars and military acquisitions. Ancient ego was something to be reckoned with.
Liked your pun, too! I used something along the same lines a couple of weeks ago - I think it was ``tomb it may concern''.
Thanks for dropping by.
Cheers
David
Yeah, she said it had interesting things in it.
Like, he built the Temple, but didn't like the fact that he couldn't go in to the inner courts, where only the priests could go. So he built his palace higher up, so that when he walked out onto his balcony he could look down and watch the priests anyway, and see all the bits he wasn't allowed in to see. HAHA. So, he got them the Temple, but still put himself higher so they'd know who was boss.
Sounds like a nosy git to me.
Hi BTBear,
Yep, a git for sure. But he had very clean hands!
David
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