A couple who have volunteered in numerous excavations over the years found a "highly revered" ancient artifact at a fort in ...

Which Roman goddess is also a brand of margarine?According to the nursery rhyme, "Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Between the spring equinox and Beltane, the fertility goddess Eostre (also called Ostara) is often honored. Flora, the Roman goddess of spring, is another common honoree. Some Irish historians ...

Fusing Eastern and Greco-Roman influences ... sinuous arabesques, flora and fauna—idealized and eroticized Bernhardt as a neoclassical goddess and Byzantine icon.

Records of celebrations at the start of May have been found dating back as far as the 2nd century when the Romans marked the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, from April 27-May 3.

They’re going tit for tat. The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed bare boob, according to a report.

One example is the Roman festival of Floralia, which was held annually from 173 B.C.E. in honor of Flora, the goddess of flowers and the spring. The festival involved the carrying and laying of ...

It combines both the prefix ‘-eu’, used to mean ‘good’ or ‘abundant', and ‘floria’: a nod to Flora, who in Roman mythology was the goddess of flowers and who, in modern poetical ...