A site known as the 'Cave of Salome' in the Judean Foothills might have been the burial site of King Herod’s sister, rather than that of a disciple of Jesus, according to a new paper published ...

Recto, below: Salome dances in the foreground of a large hall with a long banquet table pictured behind her. Diners recline on couches surrounding the table, with King Herod at the head of the table ...

A new study suggests that the Salome buried in this tomb was, in fact, not the apocryphal Biblical figure, but rather the younger sister of Judean king Herod the Great.

Last Thursday, Shiloh Jolie attended the launch dinner for Isabel Marant's capsule collection with Net-A-Porter. The daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt surprised more than one guest by ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s ...

After Jokanaan rejects her, Salome performs the “Dance of the Seven Veils,” which is a sort of balletic strip tease. Herod is so lecherously pleased, he offers her anything she wants.

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

Elza van den Heever and Peter Mattei. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera How old is Salome when she dances for Herod and the head of John the Baptist? The Bible is ambiguous. In Aubrey Beardsley ...

The first new Metropolitan Opera production of "Salome" in 20 years takes a surreal, psychological approach to Strauss's 1905 opera.

Instead, what’s truly shocking is the gradually unfolding suggestion of sexual abuse, culminating in the Dance of the Seven Veils, with which Salome demands that Herod give her the head of ...

Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.