Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

Criterion (iii): From the Augustan Age, the ancient Theatre of Orange is an exceptional example in the typology of Roman theatres. Criterion (vi): The events referred to in the low reliefs carved on ...

Finished in 315 C.E., the Arch of Constantine is one of Rome’s three surviving ancient triumphal arches, each erected to honor a person or event. This arch commemorates Constantine I’s 312 ...

We do know that the Romans of the last few centuries BCE were building "triumphal" arches to welcome ... with a diamond-shaped keystone (the Gothic arch, model C). Flying buttresses act the same way ...

However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

as workers on site with cranes gather up fragments and secure broken areas of the arch after lightning struck it during a storm Tuesday, Sept. 3, loosening fragments from the ancient Roman structure.

Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century Arch of Titus, commemorating the emperor’s sacking of Jerusalem ...

the ancient theatre of Orange, with its 103-m-long facade, is one of the best preserved of all the great Roman theatres. Built between A.D. 10 and 25, the Roman arch is one of the most beautiful and ...