Although they kept Latin names and images, the links between Roman and Greek gods gradually came ... across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than ... objects that are ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...

Based on its stylistic features, it dates back to the Roman Imperial Period (late 2nd to early 3rd century AD). During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite (goddess of ...

Archaeologists found an ancient bust of the Greek god Zeus in western Turkey. Located right near the remains of a temple dedicated to Aphrodite, the statue is a remnant of one of the Roman Empire ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...