Located behind a bus station just outside the walls of the Old City, the rocky escarpment pictured above is believed by many Christians to be the Golgotha, or the Calvary, the skull-shaped hill ...

The journey would have likely taken about a 30-minute walk due to the hilly terrain of Jerusalem. Herod's Palace was also the site of the praetorium where Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, ...