A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey ’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the ...

Boys, buoys and boating beauties are all that fill the Thames come Royal Regatta week. On the river course that stretches one ...

I’d never seen Roman columns this big in all of my travels, even at the Parthenon! After leaving the Temple of Jupiter, we headed down a set of stairs to the Temple of Bacchus.

The London headquarters of financial and media company Bloomberg stands on sacred Roman ground. More than 20 feet below modern street level rests the Temple of Mithras, a cultic site built by ...

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With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon – and that’s before you even take the Greek gods and goddesses into account ...

St George’s plays to that theme. Hawksmoor’s baroque masterpiece is ingenuous. Its massive colonnaded entranceway is a copy of the Temple of Bacchus in the Roman city of Baalbek, Lebanon.

UNESCO Unesco says the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek is one of the world's finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture ...

UNESCO Unesco says the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek is one of the world's finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture ...