During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

In each of these chapters the role of the city of Rome as the metropolis of a vast empire will be a crucial factor in understanding the history of Roman religion. In this chapter we shall show how the ...

An Israeli plays Mary in an upcoming Netflix Jesus movie. Activists say she should be Palestinian — but the arguments all ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

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Some historians have argued that the rise of a new faith helped push the empire over the edge. The Edict of Milan legalized the religion in 313, eroding traditional Roman values. It caused the Romans ...

A precious gem found at Carlisle's Roman Bathhouse has illuminated the intricacies of religion on Rome's northernmost frontier.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...

In this article, you'll discover Romania's exact geographical coordinates, its neighboring countries, and the diverse regions ...

Pope Francis announced that Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian, will be included in the Roman martyrology ... spread throughout the Persian Empire from an early age.

Serdica Roman ruins (1-6th C.) in downtown Sofia. First I looked at a map: Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey ...