A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Andrades bases his corrective account on his knowledge of Roman law and precedent, noting it would be highly unusual for a governor in Pilate’s day to consider a suspect innocent and ...

Rome, November 21 - The city of Rome on Thursday ... who were among the Italian scientists to sign Benito Mussolini's racial laws in 1938 and which led to the ferocious persecution of Italy's ...

Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but these particular offenses were considered so serious under Roman law that penalties ranged from heavy fines and permanent exile to hard labor in the salt ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...

The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories ... Ten years into his reign, Augustus enacted a slew of laws criminalizing adultery, restricting the sorts of partners ...

This ancient legal drama unfolded during the reign ... we see legal practitioners of high caliber who are competent in Roman law,” Dolganov said. The papyrus does not reveal the final verdict.