Germania
There are 159 items in Germania:
Augsburg, Römisches Museum
The Roman Museum in Augsburg is situated in the historical centre of the city, in the Church of St. Magdalena, which was originally the church of a Dominican monastery. The church was built between 1513 and 1515 and contained the…
Barkhauser Berg, Germanic farm (reconstruction) |
Berlin, Neues Museum
The Neues Museum was, for me, the main reason to visit Berlin last week. It turned out to be a bit of a disappointment, although I must add immediately that there were so many interesting objects that I had to…Berlin, Zeughaus
The collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in the Berlin Zeughaus has a department of Roman and German antiquities. There are 3 items in Berlin, Zeughaus: …Beyond Anreppen
Anreppen: site of a Roman military base on the banks of the river Lippe. There must have been another base in the neighborhood. …Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
Large museum with a great collection of ancient art from the Roman Rhineland: Bonn itself of course, but also Cologne, Xanten, and so on. Among the Roman objects is the famous cenotaph of Marcus Caelius. Even more famous (but not…
Bürgel, Scissors |
Caesar on the First Germanic Campaign
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid…Cassius Dio on the Teutoburg Forest
Cassius Dio (164-c.235) was a Greek by birth and a Roman by conviction, and one of the great historians of Antiquity. He became a senator during the reign of the emperor Commodus, was made consul by Septimius Severus (204), served…
Model of a "Celtic Field" and a small village |
Chamavi
Chamavi: ancient Germanic tribe on the northern edge of the Roman Empire.Homeland: Hamaland? The IJssel River in the winter Like all Germanic…Chauci
Chauci (Greek: Καῦχοι): name of the inhabitants of the southern shore of the North Sea.A Northern Tribe Mask from Middelstum The Chauci are…