Herod's Gate

This guide to Herod's Gate in Jerusalem starts with a Crusader-era mistake: pilgrims who named this entrance for a ruler who probably never lived nearby, a name that stuck long after scholars corrected it. It traces the Arabic name Bab al-Zahra and the cemetery it likely refers to, the carved rosette overhead that people wrongly credit for the name, and the narrow wicket door Suleiman the Magnificent built here in the 1530s, angled so no attacker could charge straight through.