Life for pagans in late Roman times wasn’t just about temples and gods—it became a struggle for identity, tradition, and ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple was found during excavations in the ancient hilltop town of Spello, which is ...

The pagan temple sheds new light on the empire's gradual embrace of Christianity. ... researchers have unearthed a 1,600-year-old temple dedicated to a Roman emperor’s ancestors.

“You don’t lose a monumental temple unless you intentionally tell yourselves it’s not there,” Boin said, adding that, for much of modern history, scholars and investigators were not interested in gray ...

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the ...

An aerial view of the inside walls of the ancient Roman temple discovered in Spello, Italy. Photo by Luca Primavesi, Spello Project. Artnet News January 15, 2024 Share Share This Article ...

Archaeologists in Italy’s Marche region have recovered fragments of an ancient temple’s ... a picture of this 2,000-year-old Roman temple ... pagan masterpiece was later ...

We will go to places where Christians faced unimaginable violence because of their beliefs, where the Roman Empire threatened everything that Christians stood for with their pagan temples, emperor ...

There may have been a main god or goddess at many temple sites, but there was a clear tendency to worship a range of deities. Roman temple thought to be dedicated to Mars could actually have been ...

The temple will eventually be incorporated into the wider site, which gives visitors access to the Roman city's ruins. Marco Giglio/Università di Napoli L'Orientale ...