Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Double-faced Mithraic relief. Fiano Romano (Rome), 2nd to 3rd century CE ( Louvre Museum ).

The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

In 9 CE, three full Roman legions — 20,000 men — walked into a German forest and never came out. Augustus reportedly roamed his palace at night crying 'Varus, give me back my legions.'