The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum, meaning “king of sacred ... the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the ...

Laura Itzkowitz The Pantheon, a former Roman temple and now a present-day church ... hire a tour guide to better understand the ancient history you're seeing. Beat the crowds by visiting early ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect ... not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister ...

In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world, argues that the authors of the Gospels rewrote history to let the ... authorities in charge of the Temple in Jerusalem. In the New Testament ...