Images

Image showing different tiki styles from Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910 CE). Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock...

Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. These moai were restored in the 1990s CE by a Japanese research team after a cyclone knocked them over in the 1960s CE.

Maori woman of the Aperahama family in Manaia (New Zealand) in 1873 CE wearing a hei tiki.

A partially reconstructed Romano-Celtic sanctuary stands on the Martberg plateau above the town of Pommern in western Germany. Lenus Mars, a Celtic healing god, was worshipped in the main temple and many sick people came to be cured, as votive...

A view of the 13th-century CE Landshut Castle located in Bernkastel-Kues in Germany. In 2012 CE, during routine work on the outermost fortification of the castle, the foundations of a 4th-century CE Roman fort were discovered.

A reconstructed Roman wine press dated to the mid-3rd century CE is located on the edge of the “Brauneberger Juffer” vineyards opposite the municipality of Brauneberger, Germany. It is the best-preserved wine press found in the Moselle valley...

Scale model of Augusta Treverorum in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier. A) Porta Nigra; B) Basilica of Constantine; C) Circus; D) Forum; E) Imperial Baths; F) Roman Bridge across the Moselle River

The Trier amphitheatre was built towards the end of the 2nd century CE, and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is estimated that it once held up to 18,000 spectators for gladiator tournaments and animal fights. The arena measured...

The Porta Nigra in Trier (Germany) is the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps. Constructed in grey sandstone around 170 CE, it guarded the northern entry to the Roman town of Augusta Treverorum. While the other three city gates...

A sketch portrait of James IV of Scotland (r. 1488-1513 CE) by Jacques Le Boucq. Drawn in 1559 CE.