A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers made ...

The church would have us believe that the Emperor Constantine suddenly "found Jesus" and decided to turn his entire empire Christian overnight. But that might not be the whole truth, and his reasons ...

Christian Rome wasn’t built in a day. For decades after Constantine’s conversion in the early fourth century, the empire was dominated by a largely pagan elite. So how did that elite come to embrace ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire. The Rev.

What’s a historian to do when everything about a topic has already been written? Write about what didn’t happen! That’s a rather cheeky way to introduce what is in fact a tour de force of world ...

The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.

Colin Elliott has written a model account of one of the great catastrophes to strike the ancient world: the Antonine Plague that swept the Roman world between 165 and the 180s, killing millions. The ...