At its height, the Roman Empire ruled all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea and most of Western Europe for hundreds of years. It had a profound cultural impact on the development of the ...

In Roman times, Persia was ruled by two different regimes. From 247 BCE-244 CE it was called the Parthian Empire, and from 224-651 CE it was ruled by a different dynasty and renamed the Sasanian ...

The complete Mediterranean basin was effectively Roman. The way the Roman Empire developed ... took the areas to the east of the Sea of Galilee ... the area now thought of as the Golan Heights ...

The history of the Roman Empire can be divided into three distinct ... for the first time it included regions across the Mediterranean Sea. Following Caesar's assassination (you know the story ...

A sprawling, centuries-old mosaic was recently unearthed in Syria, shedding light onto life under Roman rule. The ancient ...

The Roman Empire existed for approximately 500 years, from approximately 27 BC to approximately 476 AD, and included most of the territory surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, other parts of Europe ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... veil in the eastern Mediterranean, and there ...

Purple’s popularity lasted well into the Roman Empire, as this bowl ... Their networks encompassed the entire Mediterranean and significant parts of the Black Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.