By the beginning of the first ... century BC. Julius Caesar and Augustus supported laws that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring ...

While recently exploring a partially-flooded chamber tucked 650 feet deep inside a Spanish cave, archaeologists noticed an old coin wedged into a crack in the rocky ceiling. And when researchers ...

Evidence points to the possibility that the coffin belonged to an important person, perhaps the head of a prominent family.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...