Sol Invictus was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire; the Roman emperor Aurelian made his cult an official religion on 25 December AD 274. It is worth noting that, in the Gospels, Christ’s ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether ...

Hence, this was a general registration of the entire Roman Empire. It was not a census of just one province. Therefore the information provided by Luke shows that he was not talking about the census ...