He can be seen smiling, even as the author of the video, speaking in English and using swear words, reprimands him.
Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved senators on the Ides of March - March 15 - in 44 BC.
The coin comes from the reign of the Hasmonean King Antigonus II Mattathias, who ruled from 40 BCE to 37 BCE. He was the last Jewish king, his death marking the end of Jewish sovereignty until 1948.
Researchers have connected a recent excavation with a 16th-century hospital that dealt with plague victims.
The theme of Intimate Strangers is that from the beginning, Roman non-Jews recognized Roman Jews as familiar, as almost family members, but with the accent on the “almost.”
Wine production played a key role in the identity of Roman elite, a new study finds.
The journey of the First and Second Jewish Revolts through coinage
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