The oasis of Jericho was an agricultural center, a garden city and a winter resort for the Jerusalemite kings and aristocracy in the days of the Second Temple. The Hasmonean kings had turned the we…
During the extensive excavations in Herod's Third palace at Jericho, carried out between 1973 and 1987 by a Hebrew University team directed by Prof. Ehud Netzer, a large quantity of remains of wall…
The second volume in the Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces in Jericho series is divided into three parts, all of which deal with sites from the second Temple period in the plain of Jericho, exposed du…
Ehud Netzer, an abundance of ceramic vessels from the days of the Second Temple was exposed in the complex of winter palaces situated on both sides of Wadi Qelt. many of these finds were revealed i…
The oasis of Jericho provided the backdrop to the grand Royal Estate and agricultural plantation established by the Hasmoneans on the northern bank of Wadi Qelt. Herod the Great developed the estat…