Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman ...
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Roman column capital from Scotland
This top from a Roman column is decorated with a carved design and some traces of red paint were also seen when it was recovered from the well at Bar Hill Roman Fort. Together with a shaft and a ...
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Arches, Roman, 500 BCE
Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of the arch. They also provide for more ground area underneath: more worshippers could fit into a church ...
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A War Diary Soars Over Rome
It’s also told in 155 scenes carved in a spiral frieze on a monumental column. In back-to-back wars fought between A.D. 101 and 106, the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops ...
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Reading an Ancient Comic Strip
The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.