Museum
Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
Karmelitergasse 1, 60311 Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt I
Late-gothic monastery church displaying Roman finds, from dice and knucklebones to swords and altars.
This guide to the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum begins with a Roman soldier gambling with knucklebone dice at Nida, the Roman garrison town on the edge of today's Frankfurt. It traces the building's own life as a Carmelite monastery founded in 1246, and the garrison town's roughly ten thousand residents, two bathhouses, and a timber theatre for imperial festivals. You'll see the actual dice, game boards, and worn knucklebones the soldiers left behind.
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