A nearly 2,000-year-old ring engraved with the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle — known to the Greeks as Athena — was found on Mount Carmel, near Haifa, the Israel ...
A 13-year-old boy hiking with his father near an Israeli quarry unearthed a nearly two-millennia-old ring engraved with the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle, officials said.
Minerva was worshipped as goddess of wisdom, medicine, commerce, handicrafts, poetry, the arts in general, and later, war. A statement submitted with the application said the temple's design is ...