{"id":18,"date":"2007-05-08T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/05\/the-tomb-of-herod-coordinates\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:19:33","slug":"the-tomb-of-herod-coordinates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/05\/the-tomb-of-herod-coordinates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomb of Herod: Coordinates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, an archaeologist has announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bibleplaces.com\/2007\/05\/herod-tomb-press-conference.html\">possible discovery of King Herod\u2019s tomb<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herodium\" title=\"Wikipedia article\">Herodium<\/a>, Israel.<\/p>\n<p>When people announce archaeological discoveries, wouldn\u2019t it be helpful if newspapers printed the coordinates of the discovery so you can look at the site in Google Earth? I think it would, so here they are: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=31.666334N,35.242072E&amp;t=k&amp;z=17\">31.666334N, 35.242072E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone created a <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.keyhole.com\/ubb\/download.php?Number=887311\">KMZ for Google Earth<\/a> (also see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.keyhole.com\/ubb\/showflat.php\/Cat\/0\/Number\/887311\">forum post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a detailed Google Earth image of the site:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-05-herodium-detail.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"547\" alt=\"Satellite image of Herodium showing the possible location of King Herod\u2019s tomb on the northeast slope. Image copyright Google.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Herodium in a wider context (looking northeast). Jerusalem is about eight miles (13 km) north of Herodium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-05-herodium-context.jpg\" width=\"825\" height=\"390\" alt=\"View of Herodium showing the Dead Sea, Jericho, the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee, Mount Hermon, and Jerusalem.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, an archaeologist has announced the possible discovery of King Herod\u2019s tomb at Herodium, Israel. When people announce archaeological discoveries, wouldn\u2019t it be helpful if newspapers printed the coordinates of the discovery so you can look at the site in Google Earth? I think it would, so here they are: 31.666334N, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}