The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a drawn-out battle ove several years, according to a new study.

During the First Jewish-Roman War (A.D. 66 to 70), the Romans destroyed the Second Temple, and later during the Bar Kokhba Revolt (A.D. 132 to 135), the Romans crushed the Jewish resistance that ...

It was erected as part of King Herod the Great’s expansion of the Second Temple, initiated in 19 b.c. The Romans destroyed the Temple in the First Jewish–Roman War in a.d. 70. The Western Wall ...

These exiting new two-hour tours “How Jewish is Roman Jewish History” will be launched January 1, 2025. For more information ...

Hanukkah, perhaps the only Jewish holiday that has been confirmed by the archaeological record, celebrates the singular, ...

One of our most important sources for all the history of this period is the Jewish historian ... After the war he winds up in Rome [sponsored by] the Roman Emperor, and gets paid to write the ...

It is possible that former Jewish soldiers of the Roman army led the rebels ... This shift and the fact that leadership in the first part of the war came from Roman ranks help explain why the rebels ...