Hérode. Le roi architecte. Photographie from the Gallo-Roman period

from the Gallo-Roman period

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After excavating funerary complexes on four continents for more than forty years and participating in the study of cemetery management in France

I didn't hesitate to put a little circle under my eyes

Hérode. Le roi architecte. Photographie from the Gallo-Roman periodThe name Herod evokes the memory of the Massacre of the Innocents, perpetuated through the centuries by the art and iconography of Christianity. But this episode from the Gospel reported by Matthew cannot summarize a reign, and especially cannot satisfy the historian. We have spoken of the dual king who knew how to compromise between Rome and the Jews, of the tyrant who eliminated his rivals, even members of his family and his own children. But other