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The Tomb of Herod: Coordinates

As you may have heard, an archaeologist has announced the possible discovery of King Herod’s tomb at Herodium, Israel.

When people announce archaeological discoveries, wouldn’t 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, 35.242072E

Someone created a KMZ for Google Earth (also see the forum post).

Here’s a detailed Google Earth image of the site:

Satellite image of Herodium showing the possible location of King Herod’s tomb on the northeast slope. Image copyright Google.

Here’s Herodium in a wider context (looking northeast). Jerusalem is about eight miles (13 km) north of Herodium.

View of Herodium showing the Dead Sea, Jericho, the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee, Mount Hermon, and Jerusalem.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 12:51 pm and is filed under Geo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “The Tomb of Herod: Coordinates”

  1. Tomb of Herod the Great Found at PastorBlog says:
    May 8, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    […] You can view the site at Google Maps or Google Earth (HT: OpenBible.info). Herod the Great, who ruled over Judaea from about 37 to 4 BC, is perhaps best known for his […]

  2. OpenBible.info Blog » Blog Archive » Digital Resources for Bible Mapping says:
    December 16, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    […] following image, for example, from a post about Herod the Great’s tomb, uses the i-cubed imagery in World […]