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The North Gate of Housesteads Fort on Hadrian's Wall. Passport control, immigration control and customs check all in one place. The wall was a checkpoint for taxing cross-border trade as well as a defence.

A gate entrance in the Hellenistic fortification walls of Butrint (modern Albania), 2nd century BCE. Constructed using large ashlar blocks with angled joins designed to minimise earthquake damage. Despite this precaution...

This gate, located at the end of Curetes Street in Ephesus (Turkey), was dedicated to Hadrian in honour of the Emperor's visit to the city (in 124 or 129 CE).

The reconstructed gate of the Roman fort Biriciana in Weißenburg (Germany) along the Limes Germanicus. Biriciana was the garrison of the Ala I Hispanorum Auriana between the last years of the 1st...

The south gate of the citadel (1200 BCE) with foundations of two houses (A & B) visible on the left.

The Balkerne Gate, a 1st-century CE Roman gateway in Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester in Great Britain). It is the largest surviving gateway in Roman Britain.

A gate in the Roman wall of Empuries, Spain. 1st century BCE. The base of the wall was made using calcareous rock while the upper portion is of Roman concrete (opus caementicium).

Hell Gate Bridge, New York, designed by Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) and opened in March, 1917.

Hadrian's Gate in Antalya (Turkey) was built in honor of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited the Roman city (Attaleia) in 130 CE.

The so-called Gate of Hercules is the oldest city gate in Pula (Croatia). Architecturally modest, it stands as a single-arched stone gate with, at the top, a worn carving relief of the head of Hercules with his club. The...