However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

The most impressive of all Mesopotamian monuments was the ziggurat ... but the classical Greeks inherited little of Minoan ...

The toll which the passing of time took on the abandoned southern Mesopotamian cities is heavier than in the case of stone or fired brick architecture found in other regions of the ancient world where ...