Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

As the Roman Empire spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the baths followed, bringing daily civilization to millions of people. Inside the Thermae Most bath complexes were Thermae.

As a reward, the city was granted the prestigious status of a 'Colonia', marking it as a Roman settlement with privileges akin to those of the empire’s heartlands. However, as the Roman Empire ...

You can imagine the Roman Empire gradually taking over more and more areas as they conquered and progressively moved to the east. North Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, modern day Turkey, Syria.

Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... from the Irish Sea to the Black Sea as well as across North Africa. Hadrian’s Wall, in England, probably the best known segment, was ...

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than ...

To learn more about the empire, minus the crowds ... site for its stellar preservation of Roman ruins, Carthage is one of the best places in North Africa to visit to learn about this ancient ...

This kingdom endured until it was conquered by Belisarius, a brilliant military commander serving the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) empire in 534 AD. North Africa was not always an impoverished desert ...

The empire spread to Southern, Western and parts of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa. In many ways, the Roman and Greek empires shared a number values and systems. As far as health was ...

but came from places within the Roman empire, including Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They were treated very differently. Legionaries were often given benefits, like land to farm when ...