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A map of the principal monuments of the Maya-Toltec city Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, c. 750-1200 CE.

The "Osterby Man" was found in a peat bog in 1948 near Osterby, Germany, and has been dated to between 75 and 130 CE. He sports a Suebian knot, a hairstyle associated with the Suebi (Alemanni). State Archaeological Museum at Gottorf Castle...

The last remaining wall (Wall of the Saracens) of the Vasso Galate, temple to the god Mercury, Clermont-Ferrand, France. The temple was destroyed by Chrocus, probably c. 256 CE.

Bakr Awa is a mound southeast of the modern city of Sulaimaniya, near the city of Halabja, within the Sharazor plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. A German archaeological team headed by Professor Peter Miglus (of the University of Heidelberg) has been...

This is a school tablet which displays mathematical texts. From modern Tell Harmal (ancient Shaduppum), near Baghdad, Iraq. Old-Babylonian period, 2nd millennium BCE. The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq.

Map of Odoacer's Italy in 480 CE.

A stretch of the Via Appia at Sant'Andrea, km 126. Here it is still possible to admire the original flint-stones, thanks to their restoration during the Bourbon age and now protected by the Natural Park Monti Aurunci Authority.

The Via Appia near the Villa dei Quintili at mile V (Rome).

A stretch of the Via Appia passing through the ancient city of Minturnae (Minturno, Italy).

A stretch of the Via Appia in the Forum Aemilianum of Tarracina (Terracina, Italy).