The magnificent ancient city of Nikopolis is located in Epirus, the western part of the modern state of Greece.

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword ...

Archaeologists discover tomb of Roman legionary Flaccus in the Netherlands. Credit: Gemeente Heerlen In late November 2024, during archaeological investigations conducted in Heerlen (Netherlands), an ...

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Holy water is also removed from the fonts ... They were writing for an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was no general consensus about the names ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the ... one of them will betray him and hand him over to the Roman soldiers. Around the world, Bishops and priests come ...

Gürkan Anar, Damla 2024. Blessing, Patricia. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 Pages. Kadim, p. 195. In this ...

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head. An Anglo-Saxon girl who died ...

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These three routes were revived following the Crusades and the "heightened trade that followed." In second half of 13th century, all three routes were functioning. It is important because this meant ...

Hanukah begins with a family of priests (kohanim) from the village of Modiʿin who led most Jews in the Land of Israel in a ...