is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish) make their way to the Western Wall each year to ...

He recently took the helm of a new government body called The Temple Mount ... of a glass. The Western Wall is a retaining wall of the mount, built by the Jewish ruler Herod at a time when ...

dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great. The remaining layers were added from the 7th century onwards. The Western Wall refers not only ...

Beginning in 20 B.C. Herod set about rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem on a massive and magnificent scale; the Western Wall, the only part of this structure that survives, was the retaining wall.

A Jewish man climbed the Western Wall, a holy site in Jerusalem, in order to ascend the Temple Mount on Thursday, the Chief Rabbinate confirmed. The individual reportedly desecrated the religious ...

Today worshippers pray at the base of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the only remains of Herod’s expansion of the Second Temple, which was later destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Photograph by ...

The Old City is home to many of Jerusalem's most sought-after attractions, including the Western Wall, the Church of ... Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa ...