Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

The bronze figurine of the Roman war god Mars found at the temple. Emmanuelle Collado, INRAP. Equally striking is their long-term stability. It seems that once established (either in the early ...

Named for the god of war, Mars has been in a retrograde cycle since Dec. 6, 2024, putting a real hitch in the holidays and a real damper on the initiatory energy of the new year.

In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions – many of whose soldiers had served in Persia – and shrines to him have been found in Britain, Syria, and across ...

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

The discovery in 2022 of a bronze figurine of the Roman war god Mars indicates he was one of the deities worshipped at the sanctuary. (Image credit: Emmanuelle Collado, INRAP) ...

Who is Deimos in Greek mythology? Deimos and its fellow Martian moon Phobos are named after the mythological sons of Ares, the ancient Greek counterpart to Mars, the Roman god of war).Phobos means ...

In April, archaeologists excavating at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, in Britanny, France, announced that they had discovered a large Roman temple, dating between the late first century BC and fourth ...

Romans also had a set of public gods, such as Jupiter and Mars. ... Unlike most religions today, the Roman gods did not demand strong moral behavior. Roman religion involved cult worship.