The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

At the dawn of the Christian faith, we see Jesus defining what the spiritual struggle of the coming millennia would be about: ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

In the fourth and fifth centuries, Christianity spread through Rome. Some historians have argued that the rise of a new faith helped push the empire over the edge. The Edict of Milan legalized the ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... Josephus,and also among the Christian gospels. But this is the first piece of direct evidence from an archaeological source which actually ...

Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th ...

Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important ... This book should prove a fabulous resource for courses on the early church or the Roman Empire, from sixth form level through to ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

Clark, Gillian 2018. Imperiumand the City of God: Augustine on Church and Empire. Studies in Church History, Vol. 54, Issue. , p. 46. Ludlow, Morwenna and Lunn-Rockliffe, Sophie 2019. Education and ...