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 ...

Bloomberg uncovered 14,000 Roman artifacts beneath its London headquarters in the 2010s. It's gifting them to the London ...

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.

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.

A falcon shrine from the late Roman period ... the falcon shrine. The details of the findings were published in the American Journal of Archaeology. The findings at the temple included 15 falcons ...

One of our cities, Colchester, was once the Roman capital of the land and became the location of a very famous Roman temple. Previously known in Latin as Camulodunum, ‘the fortress of cumulus, God of ...