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 ...

In April, archaeologists excavating at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, in Britanny, France, announced that they had discovered a large Roman ... the temple may have been a shrine to the god.

a goddess of chance associated with fertility. Taken together, the temples make for "one of the best-preserved remains of the Roman Republic,'' Parisi Presicce said after the Mayor of Rome Roberto ...

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.

Looking back at them through the lantern light is their god — a ... across the ancient Roman world. Archaeologists in Trier, Germany, recently uncovered a 1,600-year-old temple where this ...

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

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 ...

Archaeologists in France believe they have uncovered a temple dedicated to the Roman god of war in the country's northwestern region. The temple is believed to date back to the first century BCE ...