Discoveries challenge previous assumptions about Roman influence in the region, revealing extensive Roman activity and ...

In northwest Germany, near the site of the 1,600-year-old Roman military camp Anreppen, archaeologists discovered evidence of an ancient agricultural settlement.

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests ...

Manasseh was the longest-reigning king of Israel or Judah, and he was also arguably the most evil. Deuteronomy speaks of the ...

The major world religions emerged between approximately 600 BCE and 611 CE, with Judaism being the first, followed by Christianity and concluding with Islam, ...

Easter became a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus then the pagan symbolism of rabbits and eggs was ...

Easter is late this year, and you have a bit more time than usual to ponder the upcoming holiday. As you count down the days ...

Language scholars John Huehnergard and Harold Liebowitz suggest that in ancient times, tattoos were often used to mark enslaved people or as signs of devotion to pagan deities, which would explain why ...

Others believe that the snakes may have symbolised Pagan deities as one of the "serpents" that he is supposed to have defeated is the female Caoránach or Keeronagh. In some accounts, the saint is ...

At this point, they had run out of food, and the crew asked Patrick to pray to his God to provide for them. Clearly, their own pagan Gods had forsaken them. Patrick readily obliged, and ...