The team also created a digital reconstruction of what the palace would have looked like, based on their archaeological findings.

In the early 2020s, two complete Herodian columns that had been re-erected at the site were vandalized and demolished in separate events: one Doric column in February 2022 and another Ionic column in March 2023. Following King Abdullah II's visit to Machaerus on 12 September 2023, and upon his instruction, the Jordanian Department of Antiquities re-erected both