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The external surface of this thick-walled silver bowl was inscribed and decorated with a central male figure surrounded by four hunters; two hunters wear crowns similar to last Kidarite coins. It was originally gilded. Hephthalite period...

Bronze spade money (worth 25 standard coins) with Chinese inscription, minted in China under the rule of Wang Mang, Xin Dynasty, 9-23 CE. Wang Mang's four coinage reforms were not successful and the widely accepted wuzhu were soon...

A 14th century CE illustration of a medieval butcher.

An illustration of a medieval baker and his apprentice. (From 'The Medieval Cookbook' by M.Black)

Grossmünster Cathedral in Zürich, Switzerland contains a nearby cloister that was refurbished and renovated in the 1960s. The original cloister dates from c. 1170 CE.

Funerary stone monument in the shape of a rowing ship for transport of wine barrels on the Moselle river. The barge is loaded with four large wine-barrels, and manned by six oarsmen and two steersmen, one of whom is marking the time by clapping...

The lapidarium is a collection of stone monuments at Augusta Raurica in what is present-day Switzerland. The statues and sculptures show the type of clothing worn by people in the Roman period, their names, what they worked at and how long...

The engineering of structural support underneath Augusta Raurica's theater facilitated the production of spectacular shows in ancient times.

At the western edge of Augusta Raurica, stood some very important, sacred buildings. Today, only the bottom part of the core construction survives. We do not know what this edifice looked like in detail. We do know, however, that it stood...

Via a subterranean masonry, an ancient Roman water conduit brought Augusta Raurica water from the River Ergolz. Just outside the town wall the conduit merged into an aqueduct, which in turn funneled the water into a water tower where it was...