And to fully appreciate the nuanced power plays that Thomas Cromwell must navigate and the dizzying high-wire act that he must perform, it helps to understand the historical context of King Henry ...

Pagan then Christian, Roman then Greek, the eastern empire endured for 1,123 years, bridging the centuries between the ancient and modern ... the confected title of Holy Roman Emperor, despite ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to ... of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters ...

Nevertheless, the discovery of the forts’ existence challenges a popular hypothesis established in the 1930s about the role of such fortifications along the ancient Roman Empire’s eastern ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient traditions and religious ... He believed that trade like this corrupted the holy site. According to the Gospel of ...

Photo from Exeter Cathedral At the far reach of the ancient Roman empire, archaeologists in the U.K. unearthed two layers of Roman ruins, some left by military forces and others by civilians.