Life for pagans in late Roman times wasn’t just about temples and gods—it became a struggle for identity, tradition, and survival in a changing empire.

From Grenfell Tower to ancient Mediterranean cities, we're still creating gods and shrines in unexpected places.

There was also an earlier Roman Pagan temple built to honour the goddess Diana in the 1st Century AD on the very same spot.

The site is believed to have been built atop a Roman-era shrine to the Greek god Pan from the third century. Erlich adds that Christian builders from the fourth and fifth centuries likely adapted the ...

Roman-era Jewish bath in Italy may be oldest outside of Israel, points to vibrant Diaspora Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

Rome’s first churches were modeled on basilicas rather than pagan temples because of the crowd size: Whereas a temple’s tight interior space was reserved for priests, the basilica form could ...

Two of the most popular pagan holidays put forth are the celebration of Saturnalia, which honored the Roman god Saturn, or the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, which is the “Birthday of the Unconquerable ...

The site underwent significant transformation following the Roman siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 during the First Jewish–Roman War. Emperor Hadrian established the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina and ...

The temple must have been, also, rather like a pagan Lourdes, where pilgrims prayed for relief from bodily ailments.

On the other hand, the pagan temples, because they were designed as sanctuaries for false gods, and because they could not accommodate an assembly of hundreds only priests were permitted to enter were ...