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Paganism and power: Late Roman emperors speak out

As the Roman Empire transformed, its emperors had conflicting views on pagan traditions. This video explores their personal ...
The New Criterion

Unsolved mysteries

The mystery cults of classical Greece and Rome remain appropriately mysterious to historians. In contrast to the mainstream currents of Greco-Roman paganism, where rites were conducted in the open, ...
Daily Mail

'Nativity-like scene statues' are unearthed in the ancient Roman pagan city of Pompeii

Archaeologists have unearthed 'Nativity-like scene statues' in the ancient ruins of the Roman pagan city of Pompeii. Approximately 13 figurines were found in what was once a home, and while the ...
The Christian Century

Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity

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 ...
Daily Mail

Archaeologists rediscover 1600-year-old Roman figurine workshop in Israel 86 years after it was first found - because officials FORGOT where it was when village was abandoned ...

Archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient Roman ceramic workshop in Israel more than eight decades after first finding in in 1934, because its original location had been lost over time and the ...