In 1954, builders clearing a World War II bombsite in central London unearthed the remains of a Roman temple honouring ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rendering (top) of one of the masks representing the Maya sun god found at El Zotz’s Temple of the Night Sun ... who co-led the excavation with Edwin Roman of the University of Texas.

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