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Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. The death of Jesus around the year AD30 did not mean the ...

Most were aged 20 to 30 years old and generally showed signs ... of a type in use specifically between the middle of the 1st century and the start of the second. The research continues: Only ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... In 66 AD, this discontent exploded into open rebellion. Four years later, the Roman army had crushed the revolt, but ...