The traditional tales from ancient Rome led to the development of an exquisite cast of characters and their stories that helped explain the foundation of Rome and became the basis for its religion.

The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday. The works, representing the ...

You might not be making sacrifices at a Roman temple or calling on Jupiter to fix your flat tyre, but the gods and goddesses of ancient Rome haven’t exactly vanished. They’re still hanging around, ...

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Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and honored ...

MINERVA – With a solemn facial expression, Minerva, the Roman goddess with dark flowing hair, affectionately embraces an owl. The painted image in a recently created mural now graces a downtown ...

An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall by amateur archaeologists. The symbolic find of the winged goddess was discovered in a reused pile of ...