The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...
There is an ancient temple in Greece that is almost intact, standing at the top of the hill of Agoraios Colonos next to the ...
Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.
Bloomberg uncovered 14,000 Roman artifacts beneath its London headquarters in the 2010s. It's gifting them to the London ...
The pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath is one of the best-known objects from Roman Britain. It originally looked down on people entering the temple precinct from a height of 12 metres.