A rare 1,700-year-old lamp with Jewish Temple symbols has been uncovered in Jerusalem ... of the ancient artifact he referred ...

The Roman-era temple of Esna, 60 kilometers south of Luxor ... by Egyptologist Professor Christian Leitz from the Institute ...

during which time it served as a temple to the Roman god Jupiter before Rome became a Christian nation and then finally coming under the control of Muslims when they captured Jerusalem in 638.

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

The council said the scholar wrote that King Raedwald had a temple in which there were altars to pre-Christian gods alongside ... Iron Age and Roman periods. The project was funded by The National ...

While Rome defined one dimension of Jesus' world, the other was symbolized by the great Temple in Jerusalem ... and 300 C.E., the Christian movement grew throughout the Roman empire.