“I believe it all the more necessary to find out the truth from two slave women, whom they call deaconesses, even by torture,” he wrote to the Roman Emperor Trajan.” I found nothing but ...

Now, experts are conserving and reassembling these puzzle pieces to revive the decorative walls of this Roman outpost built during the reign of Emperor Trajan. The villa, known as Barberes Sud ...

The Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column erected in Rome in 113 AD by emperor Trajan. Most likely constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus it was part of the ...

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The youngest, the oldest and do they really have to change their names? Who was the very first pope? How many popes have there been? Has anyone ever refused the office? For an institution that has ...

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The emperor was in flight, the palace besieged. It was Year 1 of the Genko Era, 1331 by today’s calendar. The royal panic was ignominious, if heroism is the ideal. In the palace — “the world ...

Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world: 1,775 in the past 15 years, and counting. The oldest tree in Israel is an 11-meter jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva on ...

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