Why was the first century so turbulent? The first answer is simple: hereditary rule. For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion ... By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were ...

The town’s size did not peak in the late 2nd or early 1st centuries BC, as was previously thought, but managed to fight off decline till the later parts of the 3rd century AD, scientists say. They say ...

In the 1st Century AD, it was a place where Rome's emperor entertained guests in a majestic dining room, as sculptures paid homage to figures from ancient myth. Now, the Nymphaeum of Emperor ...

Trier, which stands on the Moselle River, was a Roman colony from the 1st century AD and then a great trading centre beginning in the next century. It became one of the capitals of the Tetrarchy at ...