Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

ANITA: What other Roman gods were there? MUM: The Romans had HUNDREDS of gods. The soldiers want to fight well? Pray to the god of war, Mars. Travelling at night, through the country side and ...

It invoked Mars, the Roman god of war, and asked the deity to curse a series of individuals. As translations of the remaining 20 tablets continue, researchers hope to uncover invaluable historical ...

The name "Mars" is the Latinized (Roman) version of the Greek god Ares, the god of war. In Greek mythology, Deimos and Phobos were Ares' sons, who would accompany him onto the battlefield.

Initially it was the religion of the urban areas: the civitas. The population at large, though, continued for some time their polytheistic worship based on Roman and Celtic beliefs.

According to a Live Science report, Roman graves were discovered during the excavation of the site of an eighteenth-century ...

making her the divine mother of the Roman people. Similarly, Mars was the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. Aeneas and Romulus themselves were believed to have been made gods ...

The tablets are believed to be dedicated to Mars, known as the god of war, and to curse the ... the cemetery dates from the Roman period between the 1st and early 3rd centuries, and is quite ...