Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

If you were a pagan person living in the first century ... religion in the Roman empire. We don't really hear much about the Mithras cult before the second century about the same time that ...

In his first month ... nation’s nearly century-old approach to global affairs. The speed and energy with which the president has moved to remake Washington’s role in the world has been most ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...

before it was anywhere near becoming a world religion. Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century.