VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks ...

Google Maps for the ancient world. "In building a geographic transportation model of the Roman Empire, you can't just download an API for distance," Meeks told Ars.

At its largest, the Roman Empire covered a staggering 1,061,780 square miles (2,750,000 square km) To put this expanse into perspective, historians have created an incredible interactive map ...

Four centuries after Roman soldiers hung Jesus on a cross and mocked him, the emperor of Rome was himself Christian and Christianity was the religion of the empire.

This map of the Roman World created at Stanford University is awesomely realistic — all the ancient transportation lines on it actually existed 2,000 years ago. Tell us, would you like to travel ...

By executing Jesus, the Romans had kick-started a brand new religion that, in time, would spread across Rome and, eventually, the world. Where to next: Religion in Ancient Rome – Early Christians ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

The Roman reaction to these situations was typical, swift and decisive. Josephus mentions 40 different men who claimed to be the Jewish messiah around the time of Jesus. Every single one of them was ...