The man's burial with the amulet is a likely indication of the depth of his commitment to Christianity, researchers believe.

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The tomb is believed to belong to a soldier nicknamed "Flaccus," whose name was deduced from the inscription "FLAC" carved on ...

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread ...

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An 1,800-year-old gold ring with a carving depicting Venus, a Roman goddess associated with victory, has been discovered in ...