A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

A Scottish legend claims the Roman governor who ordered Jesus' crucifixion may have been born in this Highland village ...

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

Portishead is furious with Kelsey Grammer. No, not that Portishead — the English village of Portishead, a little town in the idyllic countryside of Somerset, where Grammer purchased a 200-year-old ...

[JBC, p. 523] These comments and concerns would have been inappropriate, if the early Christians and Jews shared the same OT canon. The OT of the most ancient ... The Facts on Roman Catholicism ...

It seems incredible, but the Latin It has not disappeared as some say, and it is not necessary to be experts of declinations ...

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

The fishy sauce was beloved by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but until recently, classicists believed it to be as extinct as the flightless birds of Mauritius. And garum hardly sounds like ...

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