Machaerus
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Machaerus was a Hasmonean hilltop palace and desert fortress, rebuilt by Herod and now in ruins, in the village of Mukawir in modern-day Jordan. The site is located 25 km southeast of the mouth of the
Panoramic view of Machaerus with the Dead Sea in the background.
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Caravaggio, National Gallery, London, c. 1607–1610.
A bath mosaic found at Machaerus dating to the first century AD, which is considered the oldest mosaic discovered in Jordan
Herod Antipas
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Herod Antipas, was a 1st-century Herodian ruler of Galilee and Perea, in the time of the Herodian Tetrarchy. He bore the title of tetrarch and is referred to as both "Herod the Tetrarch" and "King Her
Machaerus
…from the Ptolemaic court of Alexandria sometime after the Battle of Actium. Upon the death of Herod the Great, the fortress was passed to his son, Herod Antipas, who ruled from 4 BC until 39 AD. It was during this time, at the beginning of the first century of the Common Era, that John the Baptist was imprisoned…
Coin of Herod Antipas
Jesus before Herod Antipas, Albrecht Dürer, 1509
Herod (Hérode), by French painter and Bible illustrator James Tissot, in the Brooklyn Museum