One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos. Its population had split into hostile groups.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects ... which have also noted a spike in atmospheric lead at the peak of the Roman Empire, and archaeological finds, which have revealed ...

However, they were soon allowed to return and continue their independent existence under Roman law. The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community worshipped at its own synagogue ...