Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...
A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...
Ancient names like Dylan, Atlas, Odin, Orion, Apollo, Jason, Adonis and Ares consistently rank well in the United States.
An ancient Roman artifact depicting a large feline resting its paw on a barbarian's head was found by a metal detectorist in ...
Does the eruption of Santorini appear in Greek mythology? This depends largely on which group can truly be identified as the ...
Evidence of ancient occupation around Via Pietralata was found in the 1990s, and excavations of the area of the shrine began ...
Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a way to rise above mortality. His work, The Almagest, ...
In ancient Rome, hope was venerated as a minor goddess, Spes, but usually on a communal, national level. Politically, Spes ...