What is a pontoon bridge? History of science
A pontoon bridge from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, in Rome A pontoon bridge is a temporary bridge that you make by lining up a lot of boats crossways across the river, [...]
A pontoon bridge from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, in Rome A pontoon bridge is a temporary bridge that you make by lining up a lot of boats crossways across the river, [...]
Trajan's Column in the Forum of Trajan, in Rome Trajan's column was built just after 100 AD to remind people in Rome about the Roman emperor Trajan's victories in a war in Dacia [...]
Ionic order: the parts of an Ionic temple A new way to build temples Around 500 BC, Greek architectural styles changed so that instead of building temples in the old [...]
Fluted columns from the Forum in Rome What does it mean to be fluted? Most Greek and Roman columns (but not all) were fluted. That means they had narrow channels [...]
Doric temple at Agrigento, in Sicily. The plain square capitals with triglyphs and metopes over them show this is in the Doric order. When did the Doric style get started? [...]
A Corinthian column capital (from the Pantheon in Rome) A new type of architecture By 400 BC, Greek architects had added a third type of column to the old Doric [...]