The citizens of the Roman empire and ... Asclepius was transformed into a star after his death. Asclepius was an immensely popular god, originally in Greece but later also in Rome.

Pope Francis has added Saint Isaac the Syrian (640-700) to the list of saints celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church. Born ...

In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and rebirth. She therefore combined the duties of several Roman goddesses, including Cybele, Aphrodite and ...

Its cavernous halls once held a huge golden statue of Athena, the Greek goddess ... was stabbed to death, it’s one of the lesser known but more remarkable sites from the Roman civilization ...

Many of the most famous Roman gods weren’t even Roman at all but ... She had power over life and death, as seen in the myth when Osiris was killed by his brother Seth then chopped into pieces ...

Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and ...

Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the emperor as a god. Some Christians were arrested and put to death. At the beginning of the 5th century, the Roman Empire ...

Death rituals are one of the earliest forms ... Image caption, Neptune was the Roman god of the sea. Whenever a storm rolled into land it was thought he was angry. He was a god with a human ...

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

Richard Botchway, National Organiser of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), says the disqualification of the party's presidential ...

Indeed, Gaza is the horror of Bruegel in real life. The Israeli soldiers, pilots and operators of quadcopters and killer ...

An archaeologist in Corinth, Greece, has identified the remains of a Roman prison — one of the ... pleas for the prisoner’s release. "Lord God and pure justice, ransom from this place the ...