Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

What does the 'Ides of March' mean? The term ‘Ides’ had a perfectly practical – and in no way sinister – meaning to the Romans. Their calendar, in connection with the phases of the Moon, used three ...

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...

Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter ... ruler Ptolemy XIII broke down so severely that a civil war erupted between the two. The Roman general Julius Caesar was drawn into the conflict and eventually sided ...

Coins featuring the arch that were minted ... AND TO THE EMPEROR CAESAR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS AUGUSTUS PIUS FELIX [CARACALLA], IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF HIS RULE, CONSUL, AND PROCONSUL ...

For the only true binary that should exist is good and evil, God and not-God. Image on the coin? Caesar’s. Then give the coin to Caesar. Image on your heart? God’s. Then give your whole heart ...

The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 22. Christ and the Caesar coin. It is one of those Scripture passages that will eliminate any false notion of Jesus Christ being a nice fella to everyone ...

UB Libraries and faculty to restore and study Greek and Roman coins from the eras of Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and more ... “They could read about the Emperor Augustus and then examine a coin ...