Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present.

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A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

The Vandals didn’t just invade Africa — they ripped out the Western Empire’s economic heart. Roman Africa supplied grain and tax revenue that kept the West alive. Ironically, it was local Romans in ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Tests on the skeleton of a rich 4th century Roman woman found in Britain reveal she was of black African ancestry, a discovery experts said proved the island's multi-cultural ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Established during Pope Paul VI's 1969 visit to Uganda, the first by a pope in Africa, SECAM once consisted of fewer than 50 clerics. The symposium now brings together some 400 ...

“The aim of this book is to rehabilitate the reputation of the Vandals, a Germanic warrior people who conquered fabulously rich Roman North Africa in the 5th century AD.” (p. vii). So begins this ...