As synagogues, mosques and churches burn to the ground in 'apocalyptic' blazes, religious leaders focus on congregants and ...

Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Zack Snyder's plans for Zeus and Wonder Woman in the DCEU is almost as controversial as his decision for Ben Affleck's Batman ...

the Roman war god. The month of March would be named after him, as was the Red Planet. But unlike his Greek counterpart, Ares, who was disliked for his associations with the bloodlust and chaos of war ...

The uncounted winter In ancient times, the agrarian Roman society marked the new year in March, a month named after Mars, the God of War. March heralded both the planting season and the start of ...

Here are some of Zeus’s most notable offspring, from the divine to the demi-god. Ares, or Mars as he was called in Rome, in a 17th-century painting by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Photo by Heritage ...

In the story of the Nativity, Joseph and Mary have to travel to Bethlehem to be registered during a Roman census. This census is vitally important to the story, since it is the entire reason that ...