A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.
The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...
"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.
Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled ...
Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...
Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
A rediscovered Greek papyrus details a Roman court case in Iudaea involving tax fraud, forgery, and possible rebellion on the ...
As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...
Two metal detectorists in the Netherlands have found a hoard of first-century gold and silver coins. The rare mix of Roman ...
The discovery, made near the village of Holzthum in northern Luxembourg, includes 141 gold solidi, coins minted under the ...
The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.