Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and ...

From the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome’s port city of Ostia to local shrines and colossal structures like the Pantheon, the ancient Romans worshipped a pantheon of gods, some local ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state ...

According to Roman mythology, what was the origin of the Latin alphabet? What was its alleged connection to the script of the Greeks?

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced ... (Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of London's earliest-known ancient Roman basilica on the site ... a portion of an amphitheater and a temple to the god Mithras that lies incongruously ...