Pagan basilica from BC era uncovered in Rome

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12005864/Secret-pagan-basilica-in-Rome-emerges-from-the-shadows-after-2000-years.html

I found this interesting and so "contemporary" with Romans 1.

I wasn't aware of this aspect of emperor worship. Sounds like the Pope.

"But this one was seen as a threat because it discounted the idea of the emperor as a divine mediator between mortals and the gods.”"

Sure does