As far as his bathtubs were concerned, it is incorrect. Herod the Great’s royal tubs, one found decades ago in the Kypros fortress and one recently discovered in the palace of Herodium, both just south of Jerusalem, were made of stone quarried in Israel, not in Egypt.

Herod’s calcite-alabaster bathtub, found in Kypros fortress. Credit: Prof. Amos Frumkin / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Analysis has demonstrated that they were his personal tubs, the team writes. Why did Herod have bathtubs, anyway? Because he sought to introduce Roman cultural norms to Judea, including Roman bathing culture, a habit recently demonstrated to have led the ancient Romans to share not only bathwater, but also parasites.

Anyway, asked when the local quarries that produced Herod’s tubs were operative, Amir explains that the one in Te’omim Cave operated from the Middle Bronze Age to the early Roman period.
Only the tubs? Not at all. “Additional things were checked that also turned out to be local,” Prof. Maeir confirmed – and the team will be in touch about it in due time.
In one of those twists, the researchers were given samples from the Temple Mount to check the source of the alabaster, but these turned out to be marble, Amir says. Yes, there are objects in ancient Israel that were made of alabaster imported from Egypt, she confirms.

It bears adding that all along, archaeologists have assumed that while fine alabaster projects were made of Egyptian stone, it was clearer that poorer quality vessels around the Levant were made of local gypsum. Herod would not have abided tacky materials in his great works, as Josephus says regarding the temple project: “…as esteeming it to be the most glorious of all his actions, as it really was, to bring it to perfection; and that this would be sufficient for an everlasting memorial of him,” which explains a great deal.

“Herod built in all sorts of places around Israel, and in Jordan. There are even historic sources saying he built in Turkey,” Prof. Maeir says. “He was a local king, but an important one. The Romans were his patrons, but he was an important client.”

#ProphecyNewsWatch : The Response

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

Within a day of its Netflix release, Season 5 ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries. It later reached No. 1 in Lebanon, No. 2 in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, No. 3 in Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, and No. 4 in Egypt, despite a Lebanese boycott campaign that has previously accused Netflix of violating the country’s anti-Israel law by carrying the series. Episodes seven and eight each received a 9.3 rating on IMDb.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : The episodes are shot to resemble news footage, dashcam video, and material filmed by the attackers themselves.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

Israeli broadcaster Yes, which airs the series domestically, issued a formal viewer warning before the two episodes for the first time in the show’s history and made them free to watch across Israel in recognition of their significance.

“You try to be as close to reality as possible,” Issacharoff said. “On the other hand, you cannot show everything, because it’s too terrible.” Raz told The New York Times, “I want them to look in my character’s eyes, and to see what we felt on those days.” Because the war in Gaza was still underway while the season was being written, the creators deliberately steered the story away from Gaza almost entirely, setting most of it in Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East instead.

The production carried its own losses. Cast member Idan Amedi was seriously wounded while serving in the Combat Engineering Corps in Gaza and, for a time, said he would not return for the new season. Longtime crew member Matan Meir was killed in December 2023 by an explosion from a booby-trapped tunnel shaft beside a mosque in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : “Fauda”: The Series

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

“Fauda,” created by Lior Raz and journalist Avi Issacharoff, follows an elite Israeli counterterrorism unit whose members disguise themselves as Palestinians to infiltrate terrorist networks. Its fifth season, an 11-episode run that premiered in Israel in the spring and arrived globally on Netflix on September 8, was rewritten entirely after October 7. The creators had already been developing a season built around a hostage-rescue plot when the massacre occurred. “That Saturday morning, we saw something way, way, way worse than what we tried to imagine then,” Issacharoff said. The rewrite took roughly a year.

The new season is set two years after the attack and follows Doron Kabilio, played by Raz, and his team as they race to stop a new Hamas plot originating in Marseille, France. Episodes seven and eight break from the present-day storyline to depict October 7 itself, recreating the Nova music festival massacre and a family trapped in their reinforced safe room as terrorists set the door on fire.

2 Arrested in Theft of Sheriff’s Speed-Warning Trailer ‘It appears they were trying to get the batteries to sell the batteries,’ sheriff says

(NEWSER) – Two Alabama men have been arrested over an audacious, but extremely ill-advised, theft. The Russell County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Gabriel Mendoza Garcia and Steve Gerome Spann were arrested Monday for allegedly stealing a speed-warning trailer that belongs to the sheriff’s office. “It appears they were trying to get the batteries to sell the batteries,” Sheriff Heath Taylor tells the Ledger-Enquirer. “Batteries are bringing a high dollar now.”

Both men have been charged with first-degree theft of property and first-degree criminal mischief. Taylor says the suspects were tracked down through the trailer’s GPS. WRBL reports that the trailer is also equipped with a camera, which captured video of the theft. “It just shows you we’ve got crazy people running around,” the sheriff says.

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6G Plus Digital Twin Technology Will Speed Development Of Both

Image credit: Institution of Mechanical Engineers POSTED BY: DR. RAJIVE BAGRODIA VIA ELECTRONIC DESIGN FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Even as 5G cellular network deployments continue to ramp up within the U.S. and worldwide, major academic programs, research institutes, and commercial R&D operations are turning their focus toward deeper investigations into the promise and realization of 6G technology. Significant government investments have already occurred, and they’re expected to increase dramatically over the next few years. Nations are jockeying for a leadership position in 6G for both commercial and military use cases and seeding early explorations into technology and applications.1

The significant expansions anticipated in all of the usual metrics of cellular communication, including capacity, latency, device density, connection reliability, and other technology growth markers, is well documented.2 Also noteworthy is the burgeoning growth in the number and diversity of devices coming online via the rapidly expanding IoT.

Of course, to name a few areas of substantial growth, these will require significant technology breakthroughs in chipset design, antenna technology, ML-embedded networking, and real-time machine learning.

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#Unshackled : Patricia Phillips Pt 1 – #Bitterness, Black, Violence

If a #child grows up with violence, she learns to hate. Don’t miss Patricia Phillips’ story of losing her #mother, of foster homes and gangs before Sonshine came into the darkness . another true #dramatization on UNSHACKLED!

‘I Lost My Life Savings’: Terra Luna Cryptocurrency Collapses 98% Overnight

The price of the Terra (LUNA) cryptocurrency has plummeted by over 99 percent, sweeping out crypto owners’ riches. Around one stage, prominent crypto market Binance briefly banned Terra (LUNA) network withdrawals, preventing even those who needed to sell from doing so.

Terra, one of the top ten most valued cryptocurrencies, fell under $1 on Wednesday after reaching a high of almost $120 last month. In the midst of a market-wide collapse, other coins seem to be in peril.

The brunt of the losses occurred overnight, with a price drop of 98 percent in just 24 hours.

The sudden meltdown saw its market cap plummet from almost $40 billion to only $500 million, triggering in catastrophic losses for cryptocurrency investors.

One contributor of the r/TerraLuna sub-Reddit stated, “I lost all my life savings.” “Had bought Luna at $85, not sure what to do.”

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#ProphecyNewsWatch : The #Difficulties and the #Response

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

The #IsraelDefenseForces issued a formal #rejection of the film’s central #allegations the day after its premiere. “The #IDF categorically rejects these #allegations,” the Spokesperson’s #statement read. It went on to note that the film relies on anonymous #testimonies from individuals whose identities “cannot be verified, including whether they served in the IDF, in what capacity, or whether they were involved in the matters about which the allegations are being made.”

The statement said the excerpts cited “include claims regarding national and #military strategy that are clearly beyond the knowledge of junior-level soldiers,” and pointed to what it called “internal and #absurd contradictions,” including the claim that unintended harm from lawful strikes was somehow simultaneously deliberate and part of “genocide.” On the film’s central technical claim, the IDF was direct: #decisions on the selection and approval of strikes “are made by human personnel only… and not by #ArtificialIntelligence.”