The residents of ancient Pompeii performed regular religious rituals using fancy imported incense resins that came from far beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. These sacrificial offerings are ...
Archaeologists excavating at Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome have unearthed a marble slab dedicated to Summanus, the god of ...
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Rome had a secret religion for men - inside the mysterious cult of Mithras that spread across the empire
The cult of Mithras emerged in the Roman world around the first century CE and eventually spread from Britain and North ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a marble slab at Emperor Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, bearing engravings revering the Roman god of lightning. The discovery sheds more light on ancient Roman rituals ...
A major work that reinterprets ancient Roman religion not as an institutional history of gods, priests, and state rituals, ...
A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously described by ancient Roman writers and artists. Reading time 3 minutes The ...
Despite Rome’s glorious architecture, only the richest citizens enjoyed the good life – most lived in dangerous, cramped and smelly housing. Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Disillusioned by their experiences in Catholicism, some Romans are turning to paganism and finding a connection to their roots through worshipping the gods of antiquity, whom they ...
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