Obviously it is easier to date a remnant of the Tetrarchy period in the Empire, but an object connected with the episode which led to Christianity becoming the Empire’s official religion is something spectacular!
related to Lucius Cornelius Sulla’s post (message 5):
Emperor Maxentius insignia found in Rome
AP on Yahoo | 12/3/06 | Marta Falconi - ap
Posted on 12/03/2006 2:57:26 PM EST by NormsRevenge
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Rome’s Palatine Hill shows new treasures
AP via Yahoo! | 1-23-07 | ARIEL DAVID
Posted on 01/23/2007 8:07:37 PM EST by Dysart
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Emperor’s Treasures Found (Maxentius)
The Times Online | 1-31-2007 | Richard Owen
Posted on 01/31/2007 5:21:08 PM EST by blam
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Scholars Unearth Mystery (Romans)
Rocky Mountain News | 2-13-2006 | Jim Erickson
Posted on 02/19/2006 7:46:32 PM EST by blam
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Ancient Rome is rebuilt digitally
Associated Press | 6 minutes ago | ARIEL DAVID,
Posted on 06/11/2007 5:21:35 PM EDT by BenLurkin
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Space Impact ‘Saved Christianity’
BBC | 6-23-2003 | David Whitehouse
Posted on 11/13/2006 1:29:21 AM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737616/posts
In Hoc Signo Vinces - The Vision of Constantine
Triumph [the book] | H. W. Crocker III
Posted on 08/06/2002 10:46:53 PM EDT by JMJ333
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Yeah, the historical critics turned their noses up at the Roman monarchy...and when you get enough such critics, their personal doubts get turned into facts of history. Ancient authors like Livy are writing 700 years after the events, so (according to the critics) they are unreliable. Yet the critics writing 2700 years after the events somehow get off scot free from the unreliability charge and are magically able to tell what is legend and what is fact. Funny logic, that! :)
I wouldn't want to push Livy or Dionysius of Halicarnassus farther than they go, but I think they haven't gotten their last laugh in all this yet!