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 ...

The Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Center in South Africa is John Ochsendorf's most famous work ... bricks mortared into a sinuous overhead arch that seems to defy gravity.

The Romans were great builders, engineers and architects: Arches - the Romans were famous for building arches, a form they had copied from the Etruscans. Arches were used in many ways: for windows ...

This stone bridge over the Tiber embodies both Roman architectural ... additional arch in the centre, designed to reduce water pressure during floods. One of the bridge’s most famous features ...

A powerful storm struck Rome recently, causing significant damage to the Arch of Constantine, an ancient Roman monument near ... is one of Rome’s most famous landmarks. It stands in the same ...