Colosseum in Rome / Wikimedia Commons Greece and Rome continue to shape profoundly the way we talk...
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By Dr. Gary M. Galles / 09.30.2017 Professor of Economics Pepperdine University ohn Adams said of Marcus Tullius Cicero...
Peristyle, Casa della Venere in Conchiglia, Pompeii (Photo:Â F. Tronchin/Warren, Peristyle, Casa della Venere in Conchiglia, Pompeii, BY-NC-ND...
Ave, Caesar! Io, Saturnalia! (1880) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1880, with the Praetorian Guard hailing Claudius (veiling himself in a curtain) as the new...
Figure 1: Ponte Garibaldi serving as both pedestrian walkway and traffic arterial ( Photo by: Self, 2013)...
An example of post and lintel architecture: Hera II, Paestum, c. 460 B.C.E. (Classical period), tufa, 24.26...
The Tiber River / Creative Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper) / 12.03.2015 Associate Professor of Civil...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper) / 12.14.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington...
Photo by Paul Hermans, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper) / 03.26.2014 Associate Professor of Civil...
Figure 1. Location of St. Peter’s Basilica From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper by B. Hess) / 09.06.2013...
The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1807). Hesiod cites inspiration from the Muses while on Mount...
Parts of Fountain of Rome, includes: Statue of the wolf and Romulus and Remus, Minerva and another...
Roman insulae in Ostia Antica / Photo by Charles Gardner, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Alec Harrison) / 12.14.2015Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington...
A section of the Roman city-wall of Empuries, Spain. 1st century BCE. The base of the wall was made using calcareous...
The Arrival of Aeneas in Carthage, by Jean-Bernard Restout, c.1773 / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
Side view of the Vatican obelisk being lowered, 1590. Engraving in Della trasportatione dell’obelisco… (Rome: Appresso Domenico Basa). The...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Jacob Deb) / 11.28.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University...
The triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, erected in 203 CE to commemorate victory over the Parthians. / Photo by Mark...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.P. Lehmer)Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington Introduction This...
Colosseum interior / Photo by LemonCrumpet, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Megan Anderson) / 12.02.2015...
Pantheon, Photo by Steve Heddin, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Kristina N. Low) / 09.28.2011...
Roman acqueduct near Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain / Photo by Cruccone, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student A. Maznamy)...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.C. Back) / 11.02.2015Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington...
Gold coin showing facing busts of Nero and Agrippina / Wikimedia Commons By Amanda Gardner / 11.02.2015...
A large Late Roman settlement near Bulgaria’s Moshtanets, which was also inhabited earlier, ca. 1,000 BC, has...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Bailey Anne Cook) / 12.04.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and...
A statue of Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess, and a head from a human-sized statue of a...
A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial – one of only a handful known to have survived –...
Lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski shows the last of the total of four ancient shrines discovered after every...