Pliny the Younger, the Roman governor of Bithynia and Pontus, wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan around AD 110 and asked for counsel on dealing with the early Christian community. The letter details an
Fragment of an inscription bearing the name Pliny, Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
Depiction of Christian Eucharistic bread, Catacomb of Callixtus, 3rd century
Trajan statue, Glyptothek, Munich
Letters of Pliny the Younger, Paris, 1826 (Click to read)
There are numerous sources, beginning in the first century, that have information about Jesus of Nazareth. There is a general consensus that there was a historical Jesus of Nazareth who lived in first
The Pilate Stone from Caesarea Maritima, now at the Israel Museum
A 1540 copy of Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
A page from Sanhedrin in the 12th century Reuchlin Codex Talmud
A page from 2 Corinthians in Papyrus 46, c. 200 AD