Ehud Netzer (Hebrew: אהוד נצר; born 1934) is an Israeli archaeologist and Professor emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The subjects he teaches combine architecture and archaeology. An expert on Herodian architecture, Netzer led a team of archaeologists who in 2007 reported that they located the tomb of Herod the Great in Herodium, south of Jerusalem.
Netzer has initiated and directed excavations at se...
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Ehud Netzer (Hebrew: אהוד נצר; born 1934) is an Israeli archaeologist and Professor emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The subjects he teaches combine architecture and archaeology. An expert on Herodian architecture, Netzer led a team of archaeologists who in 2007 reported that they located the tomb of Herod the Great in Herodium, south of Jerusalem.
Netzer has initiated and directed excavations at several building projects of Herod the Great, the ancient king of Judea. In the mid-1960s, Netzer was co-architect, together with I. Dunayevsky, of the excavations at Masada, directed by Professor Yigael Yadin. During this period, Netzer also was responsible for the restoration of the Masada site on behalf of Israel's National Parks Authority.
In 1968, Netzer initiated and directed large-scale excavations at the sites of Herodium and Jericho. At Herodium, a cone-shaped, man-made mountain-palace built by Herod just outside Bethlehem, the whole...
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