Spread of Christianity
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Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic movement in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire.
Saint Paul, by El Greco
Head of Constantine's colossal statue at Musei Capitolini
Roman Chi Rho applique in bronze found in a Germanic settlement in Neerharen (Belgium), 375-450 CE, Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren)
Late antiquity
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Late antiquity is a period of Eurasian, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern history conventionally placed between the later third century and the eighth century CE. It describes the transformation of the
The Barberini ivory, a late Leonid/Justinian Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych, from an imperial workshop in Constantinople in the first half of the 6th century (Louvre)
1915 illustration of Alaric I entering Athens
1824 drawing of the Taq Kasra
View west along the Harbour Street towards the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, present-day Turkey. The pillars on the left side of the street were part of the colonnaded walkway apparent in cities of late antique Asia Minor.