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• The Magi and the Star
• How December 25 Became Christmas
• An Astronomer's Explanation For The Star Of Bethlehem
• Star of Bethlehem
• Date Of The Birth Of Christ (The Star that Astonished the World)
• Professor Says History's Best Known and Most Debated Star Proven
• The Star of Bethlehem [Bristol Astronomical Society]
• Seeing and believing in the Star of Bethlehem
• What Was The Star?
• Should Christians be celebrating Christmas at all?
• Following The Wise Men
• The Christmas Star
• Early Christians Hid The Origins Of The Bethlehem Star

[wildbill]

You had a link to the discovery of Herod the Great’s tomb in 2007 so I went looking for some additinal info on Google.

There’s an article in Archeology News
http://archaeologynewsreport.blogspot.com/2009/12/herod-greats-tomb.html

And a neat You Tube vid interview with the archeologist and some great views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfzky8JBB7k

Don’t know if you want to post or ping, but I think it’s pretty cool any time you can prove out something like the description of his burial from ancient historians like Josephus.