This undated photo made available by the Government Press Office, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, shows an aerial view of the the hilltop compound of Herodium near the west Bank town of Hebron. An Israeli archaeologist has found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, at a hilltop compound south of the city, the Hebrew University announced.

  

  

Videographers film the recently discovered burial site of King Herod, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 8, 2007. An ancient staircase used in a royal funeral procession led an Israeli archaeologist to solve a 2,000-year-old mystery, the location of the tomb of the Roman-anointed "King of the Jews," Herod the Great.

  

An undated file picture released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem May 8, 2007 shows an aerial view of Herodium, where the Roman-anointed "King of the Jews," Herod the Great's fortress palace once stood, in the south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. An ancient staircase used in a royal funeral procession led an Israeli archaeologist to solve a 2,000-year-old mystery, the location of the tomb of Herod.