Why can we say that 146 BCE was crucial in the formation of the Roman Empire, perhaps more than any other single year?

"The Roman Empire was the biggest state western Eurasia has ever seen and, even though it looks big on the map, it was even ... see a systemic split in the 4th century," Heather said.

An incredible new map reveals ... Britain was part of the Roman Empire for nearly four centuries, from the invasion under emperor Claudius in AD 43 until the early 5th century.

Christianity is legalised Until the beginning of the fourth century, the official religion of the empire had been the worship of the traditional Greek and Roman gods such as Zeus and Athena.

A rich deposit of coins from the first half of the 4th century A.D. has been discovered in the sea off ... minted from 346 A.D. The group of recovered coins comes from almost all mints of the empire ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... scroll dates from the late 12th or the early 13th century and was ...

See museums and palaces in the “Rome of the North” and get a chance to experience the ancient empire without ... was a Roman Palace built in the early 4th century A.D., and served as ...

But already, Boin sees this initial find as significant, as it potentially offers insight into how the Roman Empire shifted from pagan worship to Christianity. While Constantine did adopt the new ...