A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

This story traces how Christianity rose from a small persecuted movement in the Roman Empire into the world’s most influential religion. What began with a few followers after the death of Jesus grew ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire. Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of ...

A small, silver amulet found by a skeleton in a nearly 2000-year-old grave in Frankfurt, Germany may offer new insights into the early spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire. German ...

A mysterious new illness arrived from the East, killing young and the old. The rich fled cramped cities as doctors desperately tried new but ultimately useless remedies. The economy faltered. But ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

Emily Wilson offers a carefully balanced narrative of Seneca's life that is derived, as it must be, from partial and often contradictory sources. The "Fall of Rome...is not a historical event; it's ...

On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...