It is the year 853 since founding the great city of Rome, or as we count nowadays: the year 100.

The Roman Empire under the reign of Emperor Trajan is at the height of power and glory. For another eighty years the kingdom is ruled by the so-called adoptive emperors who choose their successors always among the best-qualified candidates.

Christianity and other new religions are experiencing a strong recovery, but the old gods and the ancient education and culture still dominate the lands.

Fixed roads and water lines (aqueducts) cross the kingdom; at the border a defensive wall, the limes, is built.

Tacitus writes about the Teutons, Pliny his letters and what the Abrafaxe experience in
Ancient Rome will be told monthly in the MOSAIK.