The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...

Pontius Pilate is an iconic part of Jesus' story. He served under Emperor Tiberius as the fifth govern of the then-Roman province of Judaea between AD 26 to 36. But he's far better known as the ...

This month, the historian Nathanael Andrade weighs in with a new book, “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.” In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world ...

CUTID, Philippines – Some Christian devotees from the Philippines were nailed to a cross on April 18 in a re-enactment of Jesus Christ ... Actors dressed as Roman soldiers hammered Mr Enaje ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

He received his PhD in Greek and Roman history and has published extensively on the Roman and later Roman Near East, along with other topics.

Having already predicted His betrayal by the hand of one of His own disciples, Jesus knew the struggle that was already on its way. For at that very moment, a legion of Roman soldiers, led by Judas ...

But what was the exact cause of His death? The Gospel of John mentions that Jesus was already dead when a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear after the crucifixion. John 19:33 states, ‘But ...

Megiddo mosaic: the earliest known inscription declaring Jesus ... a Roman centurion, for funding the mosaic as an act of generosity. His involvement underscores the diverse makeup of early Christian ...