Tagged “roman”
MUST READThe Baalbek Trilithon
How did Roman builders quarry, move, and set three roughly 800-tonne stone blocks into a temple podium wall with such precision, and why did they cut blocks so far beyond what the structure needed?
1st century CE (Roman, atop an earlier tell) · Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, LebanonAdded July 2026
HIGH WONDERThe Pantheon
How did Roman builders raise a 43-metre unreinforced concrete dome that nobody matched for the next thirteen centuries — and what held it up while the concrete set?
c. 113–128 CE (begun under Trajan or Hadrian, completed under Hadrian) · Piazza della Rotonda, Rome, Lazio, ItalyAdded September 2026