The mysterious Sibylline Books were a number of secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of Ancient Rome ...

In the Greek and Roman Empires, the Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’ba, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca were not as well known as the giant pagan Temples of Greece and Rome.

Further, the excavations of 1848 had provided a rich spoil—more than 1,000 coins, mostly Roman ... identified as a pagan priest's ritual sceptre. The foundations of the temple were of local ...

The authority and investment of the Roman state declines from this point ... challenging some long-held notions about… The Largest Temple of the Imperial Cult in the Transition From Paganism to ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually ...

The Holy Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised was the daughter of Christians, the senator Philophronos and Theodosia. She suffered for Christ in the year 304 A.D. in the city of Chalcedon, on the ...

An ancient Celtic helmet—the first of its kind to be found in Poland—was recently unearthed by an archaeological team at the ...

Vying with several thousand islands in the Mar Medi Terraneum (the “sea among lands”), Sicily and Sardinia take gold and ...

In the depths of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, where the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea caress the shores of the ancient Roman city of ...

He held the offices of praetorian prefect of the East (384–388) and consul (388), and has been widely blamed by historians for instigating the widespread destruction of pagan temples and shrines ...