A 16th-century map of the Americas by German cartographer ... offer a rare historical glimpse into how the New World was first understood by European settlers. World War II-era military maps ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

[As historians of the ancient world,] Josephus is our primary ... and in the time of Jesus and the first century. Josephus is our Bible, he is our map. He is the guy we all turn to.