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  • Herodium

  • Herodium

    Herodium, Herodion, Jabal al-Fraidees, is a truncated cone-shaped hill, located south of Jerusalem and southeast of Bethlehem, in West Bank. Herod the Great built a fortress, a palace, and a small town in Herodium, between 23 and 15 BC, and is believed to have been buried there.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El-Bariyah, wilderness with monasteries.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Herodium
    by Asaf T, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    Herodium
    by upyernoz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Herodium
    by Deror Avi, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 726 m

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    Herodium

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Palestine

    West Bank

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    1st Century BC

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