BC: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. 681: Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on ...

Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ...

In 2013, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, located in the northern Portuguese region of Alto Minho, the União das ...

In the first part of this review of the inaugural Blaise Paschal Lectures on Christianity and the University delivered at the ...

Early Christian Schisms - Part 2 - Extra History Constantine had gained control of the Roman Empire, its first Christian emperor, and he restored full rights to people of the Christian faith with the ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

Few British cities can match eye-catching York and its wondrous layers of history. Northern England’s walled city was founded ...

We’re headed back to July 25, 306 A.D. when Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. Constantine I was the first roman emperor to profess Christianity. He got the name of “The Great” ...

An amateur metal detectorist's discovery of Roman cavalry swords led archaeologists to uncover a 2,000-year-old settlement in Gloucestershire, including a villa and building remains.

When the Roman emperor Constantine the Great’s only daughter, who suffered from leprosy, was reputedly healed at Abu Mena, the fame of the site spread further throughout the Roman world.

Roman law, traditions, architecture and the Latin language were imposed upon them. Circa 313 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine decriminalized Christianity, promoting its rise, which would shortly ...