The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...

They're just different. They're foreign. [W]e have a good example of this kind of pagan perspective on Christians from a little graffiti found in Rome from the Palatine Hill. It shows a man ...

was something that most families practiced in the city of Rome. So, we have to imagine as part of their daily life, as part of their regular activity, Christians, just like their pagan neighbors ...

According to the Rome Museum, construction of the catacombs began in the 2nd century and lasted for roughly 300 years. During this time, pagan, Jewish and Christian citizens of Rome were buried ...

A spectacular stone head, possibly representing a bearded male deity, has been discovered in the archaeological area of the ...

In the fifth and sixth centuries, Anglo-Saxons were pagan, but the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity in A.D. 380 under the emperor Theodosius I. His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian ...

This fragment shows a peacock, a popular subject for Roman artists being the bird of Juno, the Queen of Heaven. They symbolised immortality in both pagan and christian art. This object and some ...

said this was an era when the Roman Empire, which had become officially Christian by AD380, was "in freefall". "We know the Anglo-Saxons of this period are pagan and they are moving in and ...