Judean king's arched stairway, foyer exposed at Herodium, along with majestic room in which he hosted Marcus Agrippa, the second-in-command to Caesar Augustus, in 15 BCE

Study indicates the marble bearing the 'Nazareth Inscription,' a mysterious 1st century text linked by some to Jesus's resurrection, was quarried in Greece, not the Holy Land

Six saplings sprout from ancient kernels gathered at Judean archaeological sites; scientists hope to pollinate female plants from existing ancient tree and produce fruit