Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle.

And it was under his kingship that post-Biblical Israel really rose to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant ...

in northern Israel, shedding light on lost settlements and the meticulous land administration of the Roman Empire. The Greek-inscribed slab, dating back to the Tetrarchy period (A.D. 293-305), was ...

A massive Roman camp has been unearthed in Israel at Har Megiddo, Armageddon, where the New Testament states the end of the world will occur.

Few words are as disturbing to Jews as the word “expulsion.” For Jews, it is a word laden with the weight of terrible ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich has bought an estate in central Israel for a record $64.5 million, an Israeli business daily reported. The deal on the property in ...

The Roman Empire now stretched across Europe and the Middle East, from the borders of Scotland to southern Spain. It included North Africa, western and central Europe, and what is now Israel ...