During the crisis, the Roman emperors blamed the Christians for being atheists who refused to sacrifice to their gods and savagely persecuted them, even though Christianity was not so much a single religion as a bundle of different traditions. But Christians agreed on the basics: redemption and...
Was the city of Rome always in the Holy Roman Empire? Was the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War? Was Jesus alive during the Roman Empire? Was the Ottoman Empire Roman? Did the Holy Roman Empire overlap the Carolingian Empire?
Hadrianopolis. During the Roman period, the ancient city was a cultural center and a military enclave. (photo credit: Hadrianopolis. During the Roman period, the ancient city was a cultural center and a military enclav) Archaeologists found two game pieces believed to have been used by Roman ...
The monastery where the tomb was discovered was strategically positioned along the Christian pilgrimage route to Jerusalem. During the Byzantine period, Jerusalem blossomed into a major religious hub, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. Monasteries served not only as spiritual centers but...
During the Ottoman period, in less well-known names, I try to use Turkish, not Arabic, spellings. I have simply chosen the most recognizable version: Jemal Pasha is Çemal in Turkish and often transliterated as Djemal. I use Mehmet Ali instead of Muhammad Ali. In modern times, I call...
During the Byzantine period many of the traditions (both true and merely legendary) that had been associated with the Temple Mount were transferred to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. For example, Adam was said to be buried beneath the cross on Calvary, thus the meaning of “Golgotha” - ...
They didn’t know the time because they were hiding in a cave during the time of the Bar-Kochba Revolt; they were clearly not discussing history but planning the reconquest of the Jewish state from their Roman oppressors! This becomes obvious given the fact that Rabbi Eliezer ruled that one...
Both Tacitus and Suetonius also record, that similar calamities prevailed, during this period, in various parts of the Roman empire. After Jerusalem was surrounded by the army of Titus, pestilential diseases soon made their appearance there to aggravate the miseries, and deepen the horrors of ...
may have been used in a foundation offerings ritual at the Iron Age fort, possibly as a votive sacrifice during the construction of the timber palisade around the roundhouse. According to The National, the brooch was recovered from the bottom of the foundation trench that held the timber palisad...
City planning policy in the mandate period is discussed in Henry Kendall, Jerusalem, the City Plan: Preservation and Development During the British Mandate, 1918–1948 (1948). On the 1948 war, Dov Joseph, The Faithful City: The Siege of Jerusalem, 1948 (1960), is an account by the former...