Amanda Claridge

John Bryan Ward-Perkins

Fausto Zevi

Treasures from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples and the Pompeii Antiquarium, Italy

Pompeii AD 79

Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee

Detailed study of archaeological excavations started in Rome in 1939 to test the truth of the theory that St. Peter was buried there.

The Shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican Excavations

An Architectural Survey

The Severan Buildings of Lepcis Magna

The history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes: in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete; and in the provinces, the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provicial schools. The metropolitan school, exemplified in the Pantheon, the Imperial Baths, and the apartment houses of Ostia, constitutes Rome's great original contribution. The role of the provinces ranged from the preservation of a lively Hellenistic tradition to the assimilation of ideas from the east and from the military frontiers. It was--finally--Late Roman architecture that transmitted the heritage of Greece and Rome to the medieval world.

Roman Imperial Architecture

Axel Boëthius

Alex Boe͏̈thius

Axel Boesten

Etruscan and Roman Architecture

Landscape and History in Central Italia

The Second J. L. Myers Memorial Lecture

"A wide survey over four millennia is possible for quarrying tools and techniques because of their simplicity and long-lived traditions. The chief contribution of the Romans was their organisation of the stone trade by mass production, standardisation and long-distance transport. Indeed, in post-Roman Europe, especially in Britain, it was the excellence of Roman building stone which allowed so much subsequent 'quarrying' in the buildings themselves. One exception in Saxon times was the quarry for Bradford-on-Avon's church. With the 12th-century spurt in church building activity, however, natural stone quarries once more became common and distribution methods familiar to the Roman world re-emerged." - COPAC.

Technology, Tradition and Social Change

Quarrying in Antiquity

John Bryan Ward-Perkins

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