Once one of the most important cultural centres of the country and of the ancient world, it was home to many iconic Graeco-Roman architecture and monuments.
Comprehensive analytical indices which are useful for researchers of related disciplines and a grammar of Graeco-Roman temple inscriptions are compiled, too.
Most forms of worship in Graeco-Roman religion involved either cooking or burning completely an animal on a fire made on an altar in front of a temple ("see" hecatomb).