It took three Renaissance Masters to create the Duke of Ferrara's "Feast of the Gods," each leaving their own distinctive ...

Ancient Greek philosopher Apollonius lived in the 1st century CE. He frequently associated with Jesus Christ since his life ...

M. died. Before the emperors began to carry the title Pontifex Maximus, it was a separate high-priest position in the old pagan Roman religion, researcher Jon Iddeng tells sciencenorway.no. The Roman ...

Francis Xavier lived in an age of upheaval, when Europeans had begun challenging the pagan kingdoms of the East for commerce and, later, military supremacy. The European traders were interested in ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have ... found a coin decorated with an image of the god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided ...