A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

The monument to the Heroes of the Literary Battalion in the Plaza de la Quintana in Santiago de Compostela (Photo: Elentir ).

The Holy Week of Jubilee 2025 has ended. Christ is risen — Alleluia! The shadows of Golgotha have given way to the radiant ...

RICHMOND — School officials in one part of the Lone Star State are no fans of the lone nipple on the Virginia state flag, so they have nixed an online lesson that included a picture of the banner.

who felt that using his birth name – Mercurius – was inappropriate because of its association with the Roman god Mercury. He chose John II in honor of his predecessor, Pope John I, the 53rd ...

The lesson, used by students in grades 3 through 5, featured the official Virginia state flag and seal, which shows the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a defeated tyrant. In the artwork, Virtus is ...

They’re going tit for tat. The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed bare boob, according to a report.

State seals may seem like a permanent fixture in local governments—a fixed, enduring symbol of the past. But in reality, some seals have evolved and adapted to changing times. The Great Seal evolved ...

Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to ... California's "Eureka"), there are also Greco-Roman figures like Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom (California); Spes, the Roman ...

In 1985, Fendi chose Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and ends, as its symbol: His two faces, one looking toward the past and the other toward the future, echo the two F's that interlock in the ...