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It has been said that the greatest enemy of Rome was Rome itself, and this is certainly true of the period known as the Crisis of the Third Century (also known as the Imperial Crisis, 235-284). During this time of almost 50 years, over 20...

The emperor Aulus Vitellius (r. 69 CE) had never wanted to be Rome's emperor. Aulus was from a family of court flatterers to the first Caesars, and when his friend Nero (r. 54-68 CE) was dead, and there were no more Caesars to succeed, he...

This map illustrates the changing patterns of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages: for most Europeans the long, perilous, and costly journey to the Holy Land was too far, dangerous, and forbiddingly expensive, so devotion redirected...

Sefer Torah at old Glockengasse Synagogue (reconstruction), Cologne.

A reproduction of the Antechamber at the "Tutankhamun: His Tomb & His Treasures" exhibit in Cologne.

Limestone statue group depicting Aeneas carrying Anchises, from a mausoleum of Cologne, 2nd century CE. LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Germany.

Antiquitates Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews) by Flavius Josephus in Latin translation, beginning of Book 4, in the 12th/century illuminated manuscript ms. 162, fol. 41r. Dombibliothek, Cologne.

Venetia, part of a larger map drawing probably by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, included in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Vol. 1, p. 44, Cologne, 1593-1618. This is an aerial view of what the Arsenal looked like in late 16th- or early 17th-century...

A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Nerva (r. 96-98 CE) may have looked like. Based on contemporary and near contemporary descriptions, as well as archaeological evidence. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are...

An 1874 oil on canvas, The Bridge at Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany)