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Why did the Romans kill Jesus?

Roman Empire Times 14 Apr 2025
This article was first published on Roman Empire Times in June 2024 ... Over time, Christianity attracted adherents not only from Jewish communities but also from various parts of the Roman Empire ... Roman Empire Times, Midjourney Suetonius.
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4,000 Roman bricks’ research could reveal ancient material production mystery

Interesting Engineering 13 Apr 2025
Trier, known as Germany’s Roman capital, rose to prominence as a major metropolis in the Roman Empire north of the Alps between the 1st and 5th centuries ... Peter, the Church of Our Lady, and the Roman amphitheater.
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Melted, minted, miscounted: How one piece of gold can span millennia

Interesting Engineering 13 Apr 2025
Indeed, while we can’t be entirely sure, the Roman Empire may have controlled as much as 100,000 tons of gold at its height.
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Hoard of silver artifacts found, may point to first Dacian settlement in Romania

Interesting Engineering 13 Apr 2025
The Dacian empire had long been thought to be absent from Breaza commune, Mures county, in central Romania ... They have a rich history that includes historic clashes with the Roman Empire.
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What I learned in the manosphere

CNN 13 Apr 2025
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Remember? The viral TikTok trend in 2023 where women asked the men in their lives how often they think about Ancient Rome, and it turned out they think about it a lot.
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The Greek General Who Challenged the Byzantine Emperor

Greek Reporter 13 Apr 2025
After the tremendously successful reign of Basil II, the eleventh century signaled a turn of fortunes in a far more negative direction for the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, marked by military defeats and decline.
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Water, energy and peace: the case for a Mediterranean axis

Arab News 13 Apr 2025
From the Roman concept of Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”) to the era of European empires and colonization in North Africa, history has repeatedly woven the fates of southern Europe and North Africa together ... Hafed Al-Ghwell. Such a future spells disaster ... X ... .
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What Caused Roman Empire's Collapse? Scientists May Finally Have The Answer

NDTV 12 Apr 2025
Ice age triggered by volcanic ash from three massive eruptions that lowered global temperatures may have caused the Roman Empire's collapse ... .
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How Did the Ancient Greek Gods “Die”?

Greek Reporter 12 Apr 2025
The Roman Empire, for example, with its own pantheon of gods, played a significant role in this transformation and the eventual death of the Ancient Greek gods from the collective memory ... The Roman agora of Athens.
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First and 21st centuries compared, contrasted

Odessa American 12 Apr 2025
That’s how the Roman historian Tacitus (56-120) described his society,” Jones said. “So how did a group of 120 followers of Jesus so dramatically impact the entire Roman Empire?.
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Chinese ‘Mercenaries’ Fighting Ukraine

The Epoch Times 12 Apr 2025
One claim is that Russia offers citizenship to the Chinese in exchange for joining the Russian army, which is a common pathway historically that dates back to at least the Roman Empire ... ....
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A Roman governor ordered Jesus’ crucifixion – so why did Christians blame Jews for centuries?

Alternet 12 Apr 2025
The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers ... Roman history ... Writers who lived in the Roman Empire portrayed judges as capricious, unaccountable or swayed by menacing crowds.
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Restoring glory causes disasters

Taipei Times 12 Apr 2025
The territory of an empire often increases or decreases with the rise and fall of national power ... During the Roman Empire, most of Europe was part of what is now Italy.
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Opinion: America must remain strong internally, and help Ukraine, Taiwan preserve freedom

Citizen Times 12 Apr 2025
Both Ukraine and Taiwan are democracies that value their freedoms. Hong Kong also valued its freedom ... Before World War II, Adolf Hitler swallowed up the lands around Germany, and Benito Mussolini thought he could rebuild the Roman Empire under him ...
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Ancient rocks tie Roman Empire’s collapse to a mini ice age

Popular Science 11 Apr 2025
Exactly what caused the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire has been hotly debated practically since the fall itself ... “When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Gernon.
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