especially in the imperial coronation site and Charlemagne's mausoleum, the Marienkirche in Aachen. By dismantling the Kulturkampf-inspired view of the history of the Holy Roman Empire – which was ...

and a Copenhagen museum has now agreed to return the head Julia Binswanger Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the ...

The Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...

Historians no longer speak dismissively of the ‘Dark Ages’, that deep trench between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the emergence of the city-states ... was conflated into a single ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The presence of women in Roman military contexts has been established beyond doubt by scholars in recent decades. Nevertheless, very little ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the ... one of them will betray him and hand him over to the Roman soldiers. Around the world, Bishops and priests come ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ... It also held Jewish holy scriptures and documents. Outside was the temple square – this was a ...

You’re thinking about the Roman Empire right now, aren’t you? The release of “Gladiator II” this past weekend has brought new interest to that venerable civilization that—according to ...