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  • Göbekli Tepe - the World's First Temple?

    Located in modern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The discovery of this stunning 10,000 year old site in the 1990s sent shock waves through the archaeological world and beyond, with some researchers even claiming it was the site of the biblical...

  • Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation

    The Enuma Elish (also known as The Seven Tablets of Creation) is the Mesopotamian creation myth whose title is derived from the opening lines of the piece, `When on High'.  All of the tablets containing the myth, found at Ashur, Kish, Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, Sultantepe, and other...

  • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as first recorded by Philo of Byzantium in 225 BCE in his work, `On The Seven Wonders’, were The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt; The Hanging Gardens of Babylon; The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece; The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus...

  • Early Temples of the Forum Romanum: Temples of the Roman Republic

    The temple was an important physical and ceremonial structure in any Roman city. Originally a gathering place (a templum), the temple evolved into a place for people to gather, to worship gods and deified emperors, and to perform ceremonial sacrifices and rites. The temples of the Forum Romanum, particularly...

  • Imperial Temples in the Roman Forum

    The temples built in the Forum Romanum during the Imperial era (27 B.C. – A.D. 476) were largely built to commemorate mortal men who had been deified after death. These were usually Emperors of Rome who had been particularly influential and popular. Temple of Caesar – Built in honor of Julius...

  • The Erechtheion

    The Erechtheion was the final temple completed in Pericles’ ambitious building program on the Classical Athenian Acropolis. It was not your run-of-the-mill Greek temple, as it had a very complex plan whose function was to house sacred areas and the remnants of other temples that had been in use...