Constantine
It’s not commonly known that city of Jerusalem – the centre of Jewish culture and religion was actually rebuilt from scratch during the second century. The city had been completely razed to the ground during the First Jewish-Roman War by Roman forces. But around 60 years later the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered a new city to be built on the…
It’s common knowledge that Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire. And it’s fairly well known that he began a crack down on pagan worship and belief while simultaneously promoting Christianity and the Christian church opening up the state treasuries for the building of numerous churches and basilicas around the empire. But there’s much less information on…
