The Panthéon then became the republican equivalent of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the necropolis of the French kings. Tourists visit the Pantheon in Paris on May 8, 2023. AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN ...

4. IT LIKELY SERVED AS A TEMPLE. The origins of the word Pantheon are Greek and refer to a temple dedicated to all the gods (Pan= all and Theon =gods).

The Roman Empire, once the dominant force in the Western world, built structures that have withstood the ravages of time for ...

Citizens are outraged in Rome as for the first time in almost 2,000 years an entry fee is set to be introduced at the Pantheon Temple. AddedApr 29th, 2018 Two eyewitnesses who captured phone ...

The Pantheon is – without any shadow of a doubt – one of the greatest buildings ever made. It has stood at the heart of the oldest quarter of Rome for very nearly 2,000 years.

The troughs are hundreds of miles in length and the central crater, named Apollodorus after the architect of the Pantheon temple in Rome, is about 25 miles (40 km) across.

Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest Wednesday in France’s Pantheon on the 80th anniversary of his killing by a Nazi firing squad. So-called pantheonisation is France’s ...