Almost 47% of Toronto’s population is foreign-born — around 3.3 million people. Solmaz Khosrowshahian is one of them. She ...

The ancient Athenian Bouphonia ritual was a peculiar festival dedicated to Zeus, involving an unlawful ox sacrifice carried out in secret.

As a major port of the Roman empire, Puteoli was connected to a vast network of commerce, bringing peoples from across the ...

When the Greek writer and geographer Pausanias visited the temple in the 2nd century C.E., he described the structure as being 169 feet long, 63 feet wide, and “not short of” 50 feet high.

New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility temple.. A detailed study of a partly buried fallen stone at the ...

In approximately 370BC, Socrates classed “possession” by the muses as a form of divine madness like drunkenness, eroticism or dreaming: “He who, having no touch of the muses’ madness in ...

Temple or not, Humann and his successors were determined to bring the altar back to Germany. To this end, each newly uncovered part of the construction was broken up, shipped to Berlin, and ...

History, from ancient times to the present, shows us how this “container” for music lived on. By 300 B.C.E. the Bible’s Old Testament had a Greek translation called the Septuagint.

The purgatorium and the main altar, to the left of the access stairs to the temple. Credit: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta on Wikimedia Commons. The excavated Temple of Isis had been rebuilt after the ...

The altar is from an ancient temple belonging to the Nabataeans, ... Founded by Greek colonists in 500 B.C., Puteoli became the most important port of the early Roman empire, ...