Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.The Periochae are not the only summary of Livy's History: in the Egyptian town Oxyrhynchus, a similar summary…
In 384, Martin of Tours had a meeting with the usurper-emperor Magnus Maximus, who was humiliated. It was an important event, marking the Church's ambition to gain control of the imperial court.
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Menander of Ephesus: Greek author of a history of Phoenicia.When he was writing the first books of his Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, the Greek-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus essentially retold the story of the Bible. He believed that the Jewish sacred literature…
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE.
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Meteriola inscription: fifth-century tombstone of a Christian lady from Remagen.
The Meteriola inscription (13.7813)
Among the many delights of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum…
Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
On this page, you will find several ancient Nabataean inscriptions.A Deified Nabataean King
One of the three Nabataean kings named Obodas was deified as a healing god, probably Obodas I (r.96-87 BCE). How serious this cult was, is proved by an…
Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar: foundation text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (r.556-539) describes how he repaired three temples in Harran and Sippar.
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The Nabonidus Cylinder from Ur is a foundation text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (r.556-539) describes how he repaired the ziggurat called E-lugal-galga-sisa, which belonged to the temple of Sin in Ur, called Egišnugal. It is probably the king's…
In 318, the Second Diadoch War broke out, in which the supporters of the two Macedonian kings (Philip Arridaeus and Alexander IV) were attacked by those commanders who wanted to become independent rulers: Cassander, Ptolemy of Egypt, and Antigonus Monophthalmus.…