Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

Archaeologists excavating an 18th-century hospital in Orléans, France, recently came across a 2,000-year-old Roman necropolis ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

Named for the god of war, Mars is our planet of will, energy, sexuality, and action, getting it done and getting it on, if you will. This week, that infernal majesty is going retrograde in the ...

the Bringer of War' is the first one. In ancient Roman religion Mars was the god of war. Holst composed this piece in anticipation of the outbreak of World War One. It’s a march but an unusual one.

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 ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

KATIE MELUA:'He started off with Mars, a planet which was named after the Roman god of war.' KATIE MELUA:For this planet Holst wanted to create music that felt powerful, strong and even angry.