"Porta Nigra"

The Porta Nigra, the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps, the only survivor of four through Trier’s protective walls, the one to the North. Given how orderly the Romans were, you shouldn’t wonder long where the other three…

In the east, the birth of Jesus was celebrated - in a way. Stuffed into the feast of the Epiphany, celebrated on the sixth of January. Birth? His birth? Birthday’s were unimportant. As Origen once quoted, cursed is the day…

In Cities in Civilization Peter Hall details Rome’s water system.

Eventually, Rome had a system of fourteen aqueducts, reaching a length of some 508 kilometres … delivered a billion litres of pure spring water … into the city every twenty four hours;…

In the Men of Nicea, I wondered why books and now web pages had Athanasius called the Black Dwarf by his enemies. None cited their source and the moniker was absent from ancient histories. A rogue fact was loose, one even…

In his history, Eusebius praised the two rulers of Rome. Government was preserved firm and undisputed for Constantine and Licinius, to whom it fittingly belonged, both advocates of peace and piety. Happy days under two God-beloved emperors, honored alike for…