As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

So there is a mathematical chance that a Roman soldier named Panthera could have ... a former professor of Hebrew, Biblical literature & history of Israel. Furthermore, Paul convinced the Greeks ...

They traced the pottery to ancient Italy, confirming that Flaccus was indeed a Roman soldier. Previous digs in the region, unearthing pottery shreds, could not prove the presence of a settlement ...

and probably belonged to a Roman soldier who lost his life in battle. Few examples of this type of shield have survived over the millennia, even though it is well known from depictions in art.

The newly inaugurated site dates back to the 2nd century CE, when Jerusalem was under Roman rule ... quoting the famous biblical verse “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” (Psalm 137:5).