The End of the Second Temple Period: Absalom’s Tomb

In the picture: The most magnificent burial monument in the Kidron Valley is Absalom’s Tomb, dated to the first century CE. The monument consists of a tomb in the lower part and a monument in the upper part.  While we do not know who is buried here, we can be sure that it is not Absalom the son of David, who lived back in the time of the First Temple.

The resemblance between this burial monument and the burial monument to Herod discovered at Herodium led Prof. Gabriel Barkay to suggest that this is the burial place of Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod.