NASA’s Solar System Exploration website notes these names, rooted in Latin, persisted due to historical inertia despite varied ancient names.

Long before the gods of Olympus or Rome, ancient Indo-European speakers likely worshiped a sky father known as Dyeus Pater.

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King Antiochus I, and the goddess of Commagene. Getty Images He even called himself Theos Dikaios Epiphanes, meaning “just god made manifest.” All of this is characteristic of the theocratic ...

Mythology, whether Egyptian, Greek, or Roman mythology, has played a role in all our lives as stories, myths and legends that have influenced ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Credit: Aaron Schmitt / Universität Heidelberg At the center of the relief now discovered by the University of Heidelberg is the figure of King Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of the Assyrian ...

The giant slab, measuring about 5.5m (16ft) long and 3m (10ft) wide, was discovered in the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal ... supreme deities: the gods Ashur and Ishtar ...

One of the tombs is indicated to have belonged to a person called Amun-em-Ipet, who worked in the temple or estate of Amun, a major deity who was revered as the king of the gods. According to the ...