With the establishment of Christianity as the official religion, it seemed the Roman Empire was going to simplify the ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1291763 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1291763 Copy URL A. Mazar, "Beth-Shean," in New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

Remnants of Byzantine Basilica in Pella, modern day Jordan, one of the Decapolis cities. Photo credit: Ben Churcher Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 The Decapolis (“ten cities”) was a group of cities in ...

Chicken bones found by Archaeologists, determined the exact date of the destruction of the ancient Greek city of Scythopolis located in Israel. Public Domain An international team of archaeologists ...

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky, from the University of Warsaw, and Lev Cosijns, from the University of Oxford, analyzes the true causes of the decline ...

For hundreds of years beginning sometime in the third century BCE, gladiator games provided spectators in the Roman Empire with masses of gory entertainment. When Christianity became the rule of the ...

Monastic Christians in Palestine showed both a passion for orthodoxy and ecumenical sensitivity. In 451, a decisive ecumenical council took place in Chalcedon, a suburb of Constantinople. The ...

The phrase “If there is paradise, Beit She’an is its gateway,” a sentiment from the 3rd century, captures the timeless allure of this place, now home to a hotel that seamlessly blends historic ...

AMMAN — Earthquakes have been the most devastating events that shaped the lives of civilisations and individuals during history. Due to its position between Asian and African tectonic plates, ...