Mosaic depicting Empress Theodora. Credit: Basilica of San Vitale / CC BY-SA 4.0 / via Wikimedia Commons Features of Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is characterized by high-riding domes ...

The center’s soaring domes were constructed from 300,000 soil tiles made on-site by two dozen local laborers—overseen by Ochsendorf, a team of students, and an architect and an engineer, both ...

The Pantheon in Rome has stood for nearly 2,000 years, boasting the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth. Many other ...

If you are visiting Rome with kids or tweens, use this detailed itinerary for 5 days in Rome to help plan your family trip to ...

Vitruvius was a Roman architect, engineer, and author, best known for his work De Architectura (On Architecture), a ten-book treatise on architecture that has g ...

Nighttime view of the 2000-year-old Pantheon Temple in Rome. Photo by Rachel Meatte. The Pantheon: The Pantheon was built sometime between 25-27 B.C. It is one of the best-preserved monuments of ...

Published in Thin-Walled Structures, the study relied on numerical analysis and physical experiments, and led its authors to propose an unprecedented rib pattern inspired by dragonfly wings, which ...

Ever since the Roman Emperor Hadrian topped his Pantheon with a dome, this roof-with-class has been the prestige building form. Big domes cover civilization's most revered structures, from great ...

THE Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged after a violent storm hit Rome, conservation authorities said on Tuesday (Sep 3). In a statement to Reuters, ...

The triumphal arch was built in the 4th century AD and is located in the same pedestrian area where Rome's Colosseum stands. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.