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 ...

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

Honestly, the ancient Roman Baths in England fascinated me! I came home and did even more research that I hope you find ...

Bloomberg uncovered 14,000 Roman artifacts beneath its London headquarters in the 2010s. It's gifting them to the London ...

Some highlights include surviving remains of London's Roman Amphitheater, located in the basement of the Guildhall Art Gallery; the recreated ruins of the Temple of Mithras and many Roman ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

The Serapeum, a Roman temple dedicated to an Egyptian deity exhibits the interchange of human values, as did the relocation of the Kybele meteorite to Rome, facilitated by the Attalids. Criterion (iii ...

Electronic music festivals keep pushing for more ambitious venues, but Italy's newest entry might take the crown: a functioning airport once home to an ancient Roman temple. The brand-new Adriatic ...

The pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath is one of the best-known objects from Roman Britain. It originally looked down on people entering the temple precinct from a height of 12 metres.