You would think that such a great and powerful empire would be mentioned many times in the Bible, just like the Macedonian Empire which is mentioned 39 times in the Bible, but surprisingly the only mention of Rome comes from Timothy, Acts and Romans, which could easily have been added recently!
Rome is in the other half of the Mediterranean, only reaching the Levant even after the Deuterocannonical books were written. And even after being annexed under Augustus, the City itself remained a distant place of little direct relevance to the Hellenised Jews of the far more ancient Greek cities of Anatolia, let alone the provincial scope of the Gospels.
Not only that, but the ancient Roman Empire is not mentioned in the Bible, nor does it appear on some so-called fake ancient maps! On Ortelius’ map of Ancient Europe from 1595 there is no Roman Empire, and don’t forget that the year 1595 is also wrong, but on the border of Gaulia there is Scythia and Sarmatia. Did the cartographer really miss a huge Roman Empire?
The map, which can be found below, is not a political map, but more intended to convey ancient regions and the cities that were already around back then. Rome is indeed depicted, but there is indeed no province of Rome, as Rome was fundamentally a city state that came to dominate over the other city-states of Latium, and from there over the rest of Ital..image
I'm growing the suspicion that one of the reasons that these crackpots want to replace history with "Electromagnetic" Techno-Tartarians is that they don't have to wrap their pinheads around large-scaled society before telecommunication.