When Medieval Europeans decided to build massive stone cathedrals, they had to use more complicated ... Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of ...

Towering over it was a stone column 126 feet high ... since there’s not a single dead Roman soldier on the column. Present-day city names are in parentheses. Map: Jerome N.

This top from a Roman column is decorated with a carved design and some traces of red paint were also seen when it was recovered from the well at Bar Hill Roman Fort. Together with a shaft and a ...