Roman altars found near Edinburgh reveal secrets of mysterious cult - The artefacts were once part of a temple to the god Mithras ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department ...

What began as a routine intervention, a preliminary procedure for urban development in the historic heart of Regensburg, has transformed into a finding of extraordinary significance for understanding ...

Torch lights flicker in the underground space, illuminating the stone statues and casting shadows on the gathering. Military men sit on brick benches and look at the stone carving. Looking back at ...

Excavated remains of a stone building with an apse – possibly a chapel. In the modern period, the walls were dismantled down to their foundations; only the extraction trenches remain visible. This ...

Now the painstakingly-restored remains of an underground temple where the Romans worshipped a secret religious "cult" almost 1900 years ago are to go on public display for the first time. The stone ...