Once it gets to the base, the horizontal force still has to have something ... Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of the arch. They also ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

It’s also told in 155 scenes carved in a spiral frieze on a monumental column. In back-to-back wars fought between A.D. 101 and 106, the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops ...

Its dining room features more peeks at Roman history with a succession of Doric columns and circular arches. The base of the columns contains notes on food ingredients that evoke a similarity to ...