WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some people are two-faced, figuratively speaking of course. The ancient Roman god Janus was two-faced, literally - with one looking forward and another backward, representing ...

As this tired old earth trudges to the end of another year and the beginnings of a new one, in pagan thought, we shall pass under the dominion of one of ancient Rome’s greater and often unappreciated ...

January: the month that insists on staring deeply into your soul just after you’ve eaten your weight in holiday cookies and overspent on gifts nobody asked for. It’s a time of reflection and ...

A two-headed tortoise in Switzerland is celebrating his 25th birthday on Saturday. Janus, a Greek tortoise named after the two-headed Roman god, hatched at the Geneva Natural History Museum in 1997 — ...