Pontius Pilate, is one of these first round of governors posted to the province of Judea, once it was given over to Roman military governorship. And the stone that we now have from Caesarea ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

In this way he demonstrates that the local peoples and rulers had objectives and policies of their own on which they acted, separate from Roman interests. From their perspective, the actions of, most ...

In A.D. 106, the emperor Trajan annexed the Nabataean territories, and the area became known as the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Overshadowed by Bostra (known today as Busra ash Sham), the ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

Importantly, Jesus hailed from the Jewish kingdom of Judea (also known as Judah), “the southern province of [historic ... the third Jewish uprising, Roman forces massacred and expelled massive ...

According to Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro ... Emperor Claudius’ army conquered land in Turkey, Judea and Britain. Claudius’ invasion of Britain was commanded by General Aulus Plautius.

It first began as a Greek colony in 570 BC. The foundation said it was a major port in the Roman province of Moesia that ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...