Some archaeologists in Israel believe they have finally found an important site in Judeo-Christian history.

If they're right, the 35-year search for King Herod's tomb is where they always thought it would be.

South of Jerusalem on a flat top mountain named Herodium for King Herod, who built his palace there, comes a discovery decades in the making.

Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, said, "We started our work at Herodium in 1972."

Israeli archaeologists say they have found King Herod's tomb in a sarcophagus in the mountain's side.

Netzer said, "This is, I can say, a monumental sarcophagus."

It must be Herod's, they say, because the tomb was obviously intended for the royalty of that time 2,000 years ago.

Because of centuries of disintegration, or gave robbers, there are no bones.

Cob Kalman, Israeli archaeologist, said, “Not only the coffin was broken, also the structure, all the masonry has actually been broken."

But the team is confident this is where Herod was laid to rest.

Kalman said, "We are actually on the site of Herod's burial place"

Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem, on whose orders the wall that still stands 2,000 years later was built.