Women especially poured into the sacred Temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum ... The group honors Apollo—the god of light, healing, poetry, truth and the sun, among other things—on the longest ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra at the site of Abu Ghurab, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Cairo. The temple was ...

The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

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 ...

Judaism, Islam and ancient Roman religions are also a big part of the picture. The Temple of Hercules Victor ... that had a shrine to the Persian sun god Mithras in its basement.

Roman Temple or Deir el-Shelwit Temple: It is an ancient Egyptian temple to Isis from the Greco-Roman period. It is located at south of Memnon mountain. It stands on the West bank of the Nile at Luxor ...

who was the goddess of wisdom. His temple, situated on Capitoline Hill, called the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, became ...