Agrippa, a close friend and general of Augustus, constructed the Pantheon as a temple dedicated to all the Roman gods. The inscription on the Pantheon entrance, “M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM ...

Thought to have been founded during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century B.C., the temple was dedicated to Osiris—a deity in the ancient Egyptian pantheon associated ...