He was Rome’s first ... Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the ...

The Peutinger Table does not just map the Roman Empire. It starts in the far west ... destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in the first century A.D.—are shown. Their inclusion shows that ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... scroll dates from the late 12th or the early 13th century and was ...

The Parthian empire, bordering on the eastern edges of the Roman world, had been weakened by civil war, but this changed in the first years of the third century when the Sassanid Persians expelled ...

They think the tools belonged to a physician from the Roman Empire who had traveled beyond ... The medical toolset, dating from the first century A.D., is a rare find, according to a translated ...

So, what caused this mighty empire to crumble into ruins? The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared ...

By the beginning of the first ... century BC. Julius Caesar and Augustus supported laws that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around ...

Two thousand years ago at the dawn of the first century the ancient world ... the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century AD ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

He was Rome's first ... Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the ...