Isis Heiligtum (Isis and Magna Mater Temple) in Mainz, Germany

Isis Heiligtum (Isis and Magna Mater Temple) in Mainz, Germany
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What do you do when you've built a shopping mall but you find an ancient Roman temple underneath part of it? If you are in Mainz, Germany, you build the mall up around it, but leave it in place to be a hidden museum to the past. This is the "Isis-Heiligtum" (Isis Temple) in Mainz, Germany, preserved in place beneath the Rƶmerpassage shopping mall within an easy 10-minute walk from Mainz Hauptbahnhof train station. Go downstairs into a space where you will walk over transparent glass walkways around the edges of a dual temple to Isis and Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome), two "foreign" goddesses ...
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