In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which ...

Cup was founded five years ago by school pals Adam Costello, Aiden Paterson, Bailey Gallagher and Daniel Timoney, who all ...

Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

One such example is Jupiter—one of the most celebrated and iconic Gods from the Roman era. Jupiter is known as the king of ...

the ancient Romans worshipped a pantheon of gods, some local and others imported from across the Mediterranean. Explore the complex religious life of ancient Rome, where religion played a vital ...

Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and ...

NASA continues to name its most important space missions after ancient Greek gods, but what is the connection between space ...

Titled “Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii” (“The ‘Pumpkinification’ of the Deified Claudius”), it recounts how the Roman Senate declared that the dead Emperor was now a god, complete with ...

“We have a city founded by the auspices and augury,” the Roman historian Livy wrote. “There is not a corner of it that is not full of our cults and our gods.” Rome, in a sense, has been ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...