They speculated that it had probably been used by Roman soldiers for hundreds of years to pay homage to Mars, the god of war. It was the discovery of a fine bronze statuette of Mars that suggested ...

It was the largest and fiercest warship in the world, named the Mars for the Roman god of war: But it went up in a ball of flames in a brutal naval battle in 1564, consigning 800 to 900 Swedish ...

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 ...

The name "Mars" is the Latinized (Roman) version of the Greek god Ares, the god of war ... and his two sons would sow chaos and disorder in battle, with Deimos representing the dread felt by ...

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 ...

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 ...