Relaxing the rules This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about ... there were still very few Christians in Rome. They were regarded with suspicion.

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long, the amulet contains a wafer-thin ...

The Roman conquest of Greece has been an integral part of the long and rich history of this proud nation in the Eastern ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

The humble fish, or ichthys (ἰχθύς) in Greek, was a symbol that played a crucial role in the early years of Christian history ...

In the 500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Christianity of Wales had its ... they considered the Celtic churches to be early examples of Protestantism, free of the errors of the ...

“Christianity in Roman Africa, I: Communities and Religious Movements ... and this work examines the ways in which ancient Africans negotiated their own complex identities in relation to each other ...