Lykos or Nahr al-Kalb: river, northeast of modern Beirut, best known for a large series of rock inscriptions, both ancient and modern.
Nahr al-Kalb
The Lykos…
Mogontiacum: Roman city, capital of Germania Superior, important military base, modern Mainz.Arch of Dativius Victor
From mid-third century Mainz survives a small honorific arch, dedicated by a man named Dativius Victor to the imperial family. The real monument is in the…
Mogontiacum: Roman city, capital of Germania Superior, important military base, modern Mainz.
Milestone
A replica of an ancient milestone at the crossing…
Mogontiacum: Roman city, capital of Germania Superior, important military base, modern Mainz.Selected Military Tombstones
Musius
On this page, you will find photos of…
Mogontiacum: Roman city, capital of Germania Superior, important military base, modern Mainz.Tombstones
The next photos are from monuments and inscriptions from the Landesmuseum. The first one is interesting, because the man who was buried there and his brother were not native…
Matres or Matronae (litt. "Mothers"): ancient deities, venerated in northwestern Europe.
People sacrificing to the Aufanian Mothers
The cult of the three…
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second millennium and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE (cf. this table).Akkad
Archaic name of…