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Spanning the Moselle River, the Roman bridge (German: Römerbrücke) in Trier is Germany's oldest standing bridge. It was built in 144 CE from black basalt from the Eifel mountains but its superstructure, now made of stone, was...

The Imperial Baths at Trier (Germany) is a vast Roman thermal bathing complex constructed in the 4th century CE. The building, which would have been one of the largest of its kind, was never completed and there is evidence...

The Basilica of Constantine (Aula Palatina) in Trier (Germany) was built around 310 CE by Constantine I (r. 306-337 CE) as the reception and throne room of the imperial palace . With an interior 67 metres (219 ft...

The Meurin Roman Mine (German: Römerbergwerk Meurin) at Kretz in Germany is the largest underground Roman tuff (rock made of volcanic ash) quarry north of the Alps. The layers of tuff here, which are several metres thick and...

Anthropomorphic pendant (hei tiki), jade (nephrite), abalone shell and pigments, Maori culture, 1500-1800 CE. In the exhibition "Maori, their treasures have got a soul", in the Musée des Arts Premiers in Paris, 2011-2012 CE.

Polynesian Woman and Tiki - oil on canvas painting by Arman Manookian, 1929 CE.

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...

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...