The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...

Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long, the amulet contains a wafer-thin ...

Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

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 ...

Combine it with a two-and-a-half-hour after-hours tour of the Roman Catacombs (£81pp). Dating back 2,000 years, these ancient burial sites reveal clues about the rise of Christianity in Rome and ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that ...

The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century later. They were not secret meeting places to survive ...