On the South side of the British monarch's royal residence at Windsor Castle, stretching over an area of 5,000 acres, is Windsor G...

The past is another country, and one with extremely tight border controls. But occasionally a letter or postcard manages to slip out in...

Following on from the Renaissance, the pagan myths of Greece and Rome became common themes in Western painting. Interestingly, the rev...

One of the great mysteries of Christianity is why there are so many saints. In the Catholic church there are said to be over 10,000, wi...

Mannan is an ancient Celtic or pre-Celtic sea god. He is known by the names Manannan mac Lir in Ireland and Manawydan fab Llyr in Wale...

Adranus was a fire god of the Sicels, the original inhabitants of Sicily at the time when the island was colonized by the Greeks and Ca...

An artist's illustration of the temple site at Ranheim In 2011, the site of a pagan temple was discovered in Norway at a place ...

Plutarch in his Lives of Agis and Cleomenes mentions the Temple of Pasiphae at Thalamiae, an oracular site in ancient Laconia. Those w...

Sibyls were priestess of Apollo noted for their oracular abilities. They usually occupied temples that were connected to caves or grott...

The church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre is one of the oldest churches in Paris. It was consecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in ...