“Roman Architecture: A Visual Guide” is an illustrated introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Published as a companion volume to Diana E. E. Kleiner’s ...

Since Yale art historian Diana E. E. Kleiner first fell in love with ancient Roman architecture as an undergraduate, she has leaned on many of the world’s oldest buildings, monuments, and ruins.

The city of Rome is still fed by pipes and aqueducts designed over two thousand years ago. They were built during the Roman Empire to bring water from nearby mountains. Engineers ensured the supply ...

The classical "orders" describe a kind of architectural grammar, first developed in Greek architecture then adapted and extended by the Romans. Essentially, the orders determine the shape, proportion ...

At Gabii, outside Rome, archaeologists found the earliest evidence of Roman large stone–block construction.(Courtesy Anna Gallone/The Gabii Project) Eleven miles east of Rome, in the ancient city of ...

Nearly all visitors know the road, and most have likely walked on it. One of the few long, straight arteries in a city of tangled lanes and alleys, it’s something of a monument itself, running from ...

Rome, the superpower of the ancient world, was a great fountainhead of culture, literature, military science, philosophy, and above all else, architecture. A lot of the Roman Empire’s architectural ...