This date is significant, as it suggests that Saulos and Gadalias were conducting their subversive activities on the eve of a ...

Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but these particular offenses were considered so serious under Roman law that penalties ... condemned were devoured by wild animals.

some of our wild animals, religion, the words and language we speak, how we calculate distances, numbers and why we use money to pay for goods were all introduced by the Romans. Pupils could ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

The Romans may have first come across the colorful potential of nanoparticles by accident, but they seem to have perfected it. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY The colorful ...