Artifact 1.1 Rome – 40 AD♁ Roman Emperor Caligula, well known as a sadistic tyrant and religious extremist, theologically suppressed the sermons of the Apostle Simon—commonly know as Saint Peter—and banished and destroyed Mark the Evangelist’s original written gospel. Caligula claimed to be Jupiter and was worshipped throughout the empire as Neos Helios—the New Sun—commissioning a statue of himself to be erected in the Temple of Jerusalem. Peter and Mark, unwavering in their devotion to Jesus and unwilling to recant the gospel, were charged with heresy. Mark fled to Egypt, where he established...