When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

A large house or farm stood there from around 1350, according to lokalhistoriewiki.no (link in Norwegian). In 1602, Christian ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The peasant parade carries a countercultural message: The weak and the powerless gathered together with the divine presence become the powerful. In Holy Week, God puts God’s thumb on the scale to ...

Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a ...

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus' ...

As control over the mountains changed hands through the centuries, Christian saints replaced the Hellenistic-Roman deity ... 14th-century B.C. Hittite Empire, rulers of Anatolia.

A trove of buried treasure that metal detectorists recently discovered in Transylvania once belonged to an ancient people that inhabited the region in modern-day Romania.

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

The sun had set as my friends and I drove past the church in Pinaglabanan, San Juan, last Palm Sunday. “Anyone needing ...