Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

Roman religion involved cult worship. Approval from the gods did not depend on a person’s behavior, but on accurate observance of religious rituals. Each god needed an image – usually a statue ...

The handle is a “Roman gladiator souvenir,” according to ... The following of gladiators was a “celebrity cult,” researchers said. What are we learning about the past?

And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the ...

specialist study of the topic The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries by Manfred Clauss, translated by Richard Gordon (Edinburgh, 2000) English Heritage Book of Roman Britain by ...