BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) --A physician has suggested a grisly new theory as to what killed King Herod, of biblical fame. It was chronic kidney disease complicated by a severe infection that led ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

But where precisely was the king entombed? At the summit of Herodium? At the base? Inside the mountain itself? Josephus didn't say. By the late 1800s, Herod's tomb had become one of biblical ...

Originally titled Bethlehem, Zero AD is set to adapt the Massacre of the Innocents, when the tyrannical King Herod ordered the execution of all male babies under two in the city’s vicinity This ...