Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

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Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?

And so Luke’s narrative shifts to the taxation under Tiberius Caesar and Joseph and Mary going to David’s city, Bethlehem, and the birth of her child in the manger. Christmas lives in the ...

Founding a family business for the ages? Think big. The Roman empire, for starters. That’s the subject of Robert Graves’s “I, ...

As was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

First emperor Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar, while the list of adopted rulers includes Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius (pictured). By the ...

Tiberius Apsimarus, aware of the deposed Emperor’s location ... He offered the hand of his daughter, Anastasia, in marriage, as well as Caesar’s crown. Tervel accepted. Justinian II rode to the walls ...