Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era graves of men who were buried with "curse tablets," at least one of which was written in an extinct language. Excavations underneath an ...

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 ...

After discovering statues of bronze of Mars, the Roman war god, along with weapons stashed in a ditch around the perimeter of the sanctuary. This suggested that soldiers used this site often.

Roman gods such as Jupiter, Mars and Venus were commonly worshipped alongside native gods. When these native gods could be linked to Roman gods they were frequently amalgamated. This is ...