Similar to the Greek Pantheon, these major gods and goddesses were members of a divine family under Jupiter and Juno, and ...

These gods had made their home in the Roman world at an early time, along with Greek art and literature. Some of these Greek gods shared Roman names and acquired some Roman characteristics.

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...

The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress. Researchers think a temple dedicated to the mysterious deity may have stood nearby ...

From Venus to Yahweh to Ganesha, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston surveys depictions of divinity through the ages.

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Some 2,100 to 1,800 years ago in what is today's northwestern Pakistan, the Gandharan ...