Ancient Roman architecture is seen as a part of classical architecture and generally builds off of the three classical orders—Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric—which were developed in ancient ...

Arches, Roman, 500 BCE . by Martha Plotz, '01. Water is heavy stuff. When the ancient Romans undertook to build an aquaduct to carry fresh water from the mountains into the city, they needed a ...

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This article was originally published on May 4, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. Arches have long been used to mark the ...

With arches, domes and concrete, some of the most impressive architectural structures were born. One such is the Pantheon, a Roman temple with a soaring concrete dome that would put modern ...

THE subject matter of this little volume is of great importance to Civil Engineers. All structures resolve themselves ultimately into beams, columns, and arches, of some kind. It is therefore of ...

Braving bitter cold and wind, archaeologists in Serbia surveyed the site of an ancient Roman triumphal arch, one of only a handful in the Balkans, that dates back to the third century.

Excavated evidence long ago convinced most archaeologists that the ancient Greeks knew little about the graceful art of arch building and practiced it less. Greek architects apparently preferred to ...