Images

A 1940 photograph of German general (later field marshal) Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954). Kleist notably commanded a panzer division in Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing an explosion caused by a Soviet booby-trap mine after Axis soldiers occupied Kiev in the Ukraine after the battle of Kiev in 1941. The battle was a major Axis victory during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War...

A photograph showing a German soldier in Kiev, Ukraine after the battle of Kiev in 1941. The battle was a major Axis victory during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A September 1941 photograph showing Axis troops advancing in the Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Ancient theater of Bostra (Busra), Syria.

Iseum, Isis sanctuary at Savaria, Szombathely, Hungary.

Mithraeum III in ancient Poetovio, Ptuj, Slovenia

Carnuntum Archeological Park, Austria.

Southern and central part of the excavation site of the Roman arena at the ancient Noricum capital Virunum II, market town Maria Saal, district Klagenfurt Land, Carinthia, Austria.

Sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater, established in Mogontiacum in the 1st century CE under the Flavian dynasty, Mainz.