He theorized that the church was possibly built atop a pagan temple dedicated to Apollo, a Greek and Roman sun god. The team ...

During the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Egyptians continued to worship their traditional gods even ... in the temple of Khnum at Esna, Egyptians had observed the paths of the sun, moon, and ...

More than 14,000 Roman artifacts were pulled ... decorated with cult symbols. While the temple itself was devoted to Mithras, a bull-slayer and sun god, pottery fragments suggest that the area ...