The grandiose court was soon filled with moneylenders ... the only remains of Herod’s expansion of the Second Temple, which was later destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Photograph by Michele ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple. Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og, lies openly in the Russian ...