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Rome Banned Pagan Worship in 392, but a Thracian Temple May Have Kept It Going for Decades

In November 392, the Roman emperor Theodosius I signed a law banning every pagan rite, including those performed in private. Against that date, the claim now coming from Bulgaria’s National Museum of History sounds startling: that people went on honoring the old gods until around the middle of the fifth century, in a temple built […]

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Tombstones, Sarcophagi, and Amulets Found in the Tell el-Deir Necropolis Mixing Representations of Greek and Egyptian Gods

The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt has announced the discovery of around twenty funerary tombstones, several sarcophagi, and a collection of amulets in Tell el-Deir, the necropolis located south of the city of New Damietta, in the Nile Delta. The discovery took place during the excavation season that the Egyptian archaeological mission is currently […]

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