Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

Alice Roberts has a gift. Few can make stones live the way she does. An archaeologist by training, a storyteller by nature, she takes broken tiles and battered fragments and makes them shine. Roman ...

Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire. The Rev.

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers made ...

The “Fall of Rome . . . is not a historical event; it’s more akin to a theological idea.” So proclaims Douglas Boin, sacking the understanding of early Chris­tian identity that has prevailed since at ...

One of the greatest challenges for Christians today is to move beyond simply acknowledging the growing religious diversity in our rapidly shrinking world to embrace religious pluralism, that is, to ...

Christian Rome wasn’t built in a day. For decades after Constantine’s conversion in the early fourth century, the empire was dominated by a largely pagan elite. So how did that elite come to embrace ...

A mysterious new illness arrived from the East, killing young and the old. The rich fled cramped cities as doctors desperately tried new but ultimately useless remedies. The economy faltered. But ...