Under their rule, Roman treatment of the Italian communities became stricter, while the Greek cities in southern Italy, which had supported Hannibal, became Roman colonies. Rome continued to extend its power to the north; between 201 and 196 BC, the Celts of the Po River valley were subdued ...
During Roman rule in the second century AD, Bosra rose to prominence as the regional capital. Alaa Al-Salah, director of the Bosra Archaeological Site, described a meticulously planned city mirroring Rome itself, complete with a grid layout, roads, theaters, a hippodrome, and baths. But Syria...
A basic Roman grid was characterized by a rectangle or a square in a nearly perfect orthogonal layout of streets. The two main streets, the cardo and the decumanus, would cross each other at a right angle in the center of the grid. This grid was an ideal structure to organize the differ...
古代首都对现代城市发展的影响 The influence of ancient capitals on modern city development cannot be overstated. These cities have provided valuable lessons in urban planning, architecture, and cultural preservation. Many modern cities have drawn inspiration from the layout an...
Hanwei Luoyang Ancient City was the capital of the Eastern Han, Cao-Wei, Western Jin and Northern Wei dynasty.Because it is far from today, people do not know too much about its structure and layout. According to the archaeological materials of the Taiji Palace and ChangHe Gate in recent ye...
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Layout of the tomb of Montecalvario (from site interpretation) Archaeologists believed the tomb had already been looted by the time it was discovered, but the robbers did not get everything. There were fragments of gold, bronze, iron, bone and ivory scattered about, believed to have been fro...
Also known as the Olympieion, the Temple of Olympian Zeus was an enormous temple built over several centuries, starting in 174 BCE and finally completed by Roman emperor Hadrian in 131 CE. Its unusually tall columns and ambitious layout made the temple one of the largest ever built in the ...
The main elements in the layout of a city were the sanctuary (acropolis) and the public market place (agora), around which were situated the residential quarters. Temples—the “dwellings of the gods” within which a statue stood—occupied the foremost place in the building of cities and ...