Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.

In ancient Egypt, a rearing cobra, a prominent symbol of royal power ... light over darkness. In Greek mythology the rod of Asclepius, entwined with a single serpent, symbolizes medicine and ...