The Death of Herod the Great

Greek Inscription Prohibiting Non-Jews From Entering The Temple Courtyard

Herod the Great Starts to Rebuild The Second Temple

Josephus Writes About the Beauty of Herod’s Temple

“To the Place of Trumpeting” to Declare the Sabbath on the Temple Mount

Herodium and its Synagogue

Mark Antony Establishes Herod “the Great” as Roman Client King of the Land of Israel

Mattathias Antigonus Is Murdered by Roman General Mark Antony

Herod Appeals to the Romans

Cleopatra VII Coin

Jewish Soldiers Rescue Roman Emperor Julius Caesar and Queen Cleopatra VII in Alexandria, Egypt

Antipater the Idumaean Becomes Roman Procurator of Judea

Roman General Pompey the Great Captures Jerusalem

Queen Salome Alexandra

Ptolemy I Soter ("Savior") Enters Jerusalem on the Sabbath and Takes Jewish Captives to Alexandria, Egypt

Alexander the Great Enters the Temple in Jerusalem

Aristobulus I (Yehuda), son of John Hyrcanus, Claims both the Kingship and the High Priesthood

Jonathan Fortifies Jerusalem

John Hyrcanus Becomes High Priest

Hasmonean Kingdom

Judah Maccabee Purifies the Temple

The Revolt of the Maccabees against the Seleucids

The Acra Citadel

Onias IV Flees to Egypt and Builds a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis

Hellenization of the Jews

King Antiochus IV Epiphanes Defiles the Temple

The Seleucids achieved a complete victory over the Ptolemaic army during the Battle of Panium, 200 BCE placing Israel under Seleucid rule

The name “Septuagint” derives from “The Translation of the Seventy”

Ptolemaic Judea Coin

Persian King Xerxes (Ahasuerus) and Queen Esther