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Lapidarium at Augusta Raurica
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...

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

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Grienmatt Sanctuary at Augusta Raurica
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...

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Water Conduit at Augusta Raurica
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...

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St. Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod
St. Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod, Russia. It was first built c. 1037 CE by the Kievan Rus king Yaroslav I (c. 1019-1054 CE)

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Vladimir I Converting to Christianity
A 19th century CE fresco by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov in kieve depicting the baptism of the Kievan Rus leader Saint Prince Vladimir (r. 980-1015 CE)

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Princess Olga's Revenge on the Drevlians
A 15th century CE manuscript illustration showing the revenge of Princess Olga (d. c. 969 CE) of the Kievan Rus on the Drevlians, who had killed her husband, Igor of Kiev (912-945 CE)

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Rus Burial Mounds, Staraja Ladoga
Rus burial mounds dating to the 8-1oth century CE near Straraja Ladoga, Russia.

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Zurich's Grossmunster and Fraumunster
This woodcut print showing the skyline of late medieval and early modern Zürich, Switzerland comes from Sebastian Münster's Latin edition of "Cosmographia," which was issued in c. 1552 CE. Münster was a famed German printmaker whose "Cosmographia"...

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William of Jumièges
William of Jumièges, who wrote his work the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes) c. 1070 CE, is here seen handing over his completed work to William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087 CE). Mainly writing on the Norman conquest of...