The Noxgear Tracer360 visibility vest was designed for nighttime runners and cyclists. Nox = Roman goddess of the night. It was created by aerospace engineers Tom Walters and Simon Curran.

A 13-year-old boy hiking with his father near an Israeli quarry unearthed a nearly two-millennia-old ring engraved with the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle, officials said.

Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred salt cakes (mola salsa) and oversaw the care of sacred objects in the temple.

This Roman sculptured head of a goddess was found at Bearsden Roman fort, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and was picked by Kevin Grant, postgraduate student at the University of Glasgow (Archaeology).

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

While hiking with his father on Mount Carmel in Israel, a teenage boy stumbled across a 1,800-year-old ring depicting the Roman goddess Minerva. Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority have ...

They made offerings at temples and shrines to make them happy. Image caption, A statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. They also borrowed new gods from the people they conquered ...

Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network of pipes, channels, and bridges to bring water to Rome, creating in the process an enduring symbol of Roman civilization ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...