When Medieval Europeans decided to build massive stone cathedrals, they had to use more complicated designs of arches: one with heavier supports on the sides (called flying buttresses, light blue in ...

The vault relies on the architectural principles that guided the construction of ancient Roman buildings, such as a 33-acre public bathhouse in central Rome that still stands today. The more ...

NOVA: The arcades are what come to mind as one of the signatures of the Roman Empire ... is important—the arch and the arcade, which is a series of arches, is beautiful. I think the Romans ...

Ancient masters of engineering ... “the miracles,” for its breathtaking triple tier of arches. Aqueducts were costly public works, and not all Roman cities necessarily required them.

are the bridges built with a series of arches, and one of the grandest monuments of the Empire. When the aqueduct must flow higher than about five feet, Roman engineers should use an arcade rather ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...