THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND JUDEA. The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces.

1,900-year-old papyrus 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the ... and before the Bar Kokhba revolt began in A.D. 132 — a major Jewish uprising against the Roman Empire. ...

For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years ...

The Roman Empire had colonized Judea—the southern part of ancient Palestine—some 200 years earlier. By 132 C.E., various Roman incursions upon Jewish life, ...

This document sheds light on how the Roman Empire combated financial crimes, specifically tax fraud involving slaves, in the provinces of Judea and Arabia during a tumultuous period marked by two ...

Last year, a social-media trend featured women asking men how often they thought about the Roman Empire. The answer, it seemed, ... (renamed again as Judea and Samaria) ...