Columns with hieroglyphics and heads. The publisher's insignia is at the lower right. There is an attached description: "Dendera, i.e. probably 'The Abode of the Goddess Athor,' to whom this temple ...

The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

The Roman Temple is another highlight of the premises ... It once boasted towering columns, a grand staircase, and a sacred space where rituals took place. The temple, built in the late first ...