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Old tomb entrance (4160525370)
Old tomb entrance (4160525370)

Herod's family tomb, with or without upper-case initials, can refer to several sites identified at different times as the burial structures of the immediate relatives of Herod the Great, one of them probably being the famed king's own tomb.

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Herod's family tomb
Pele Yoetz, Jerusalem Yemin Moshe

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פלא יועץ

Pele Yoetz
9410158 Jerusalem, Yemin Moshe
Jerusalem District, Israel
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