The Israeli archaeologist, Ehud Netzer, showed yesterday that he unearthed two tombs in the West Bank that thinks that they contain the rest of relatives of Biblical King Herodes.

Other results announced by Ehud Netzer, head of a group of excavation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provide new evidences of the lavish style of life of the monarchy of the Roman era, also well-known like `King of Judíos'.

Netzer showed the journalists pieces of two limestone stone coffins that apparently contained rest of one of the women of Herodes, Malthace, and of their daughter-in-law. In addition, it added that these findings support their theory that another coffin found in the zone in 2007 was of the tomb of Herodes.

In December of 2007, the Israeli archaeologist discovered this tomb in a hill of the desert of Judea, to the south of Jerusalem, where King Herodes constructed a palace. However, some experts said in that one occasion that the evidence did not seem conclusive. Based on the additional coffin that found and in spite of the absence of inscriptions and documentation of the old Jewish historian, Josephus Flavius, Netzer he expressed that he would eat my hat to me if were the tomb of somebody more.

Herodes, a designated Roman king who a.d. governed Judea between before the 37 Christ and his death in the 4, has a special place in Biblical history, since it reconstructed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, that became training center for the Jewish state. The gospel of San Mateo shows that Herodes ordered `Massacre of Inocentes', a great slaughter of children in Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, by fear to that they snatched the throne to him.

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