If you're making a building, you just anchor your arches in a really massive wall, and the Romans didn't mess around with this sort of thing-- the Pantheon walls are about six meters thick.

With arches, domes and concrete, some of the most impressive architectural structures were born. One such is the Pantheon, a Roman temple with a soaring concrete dome that would put modern ...

limiting the stress placed on the arches hidden within the walls of the rotunda.[5,6] Save this picture! The interior of the Pantheon contains a perfectly spherical volume – a cosmic symbol ...

The precise calculations made in the positioning and construction of the Pantheon mean that the size and shape of the beam perfectly matches, down to the last inch, a semicircular stone arch above ...

From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and improved all kinds of technology, building in the process one of the most modern cities in the ancient world ...

The Pantheon is – without any shadow of a doubt ... But the great coffered dome – as high as it is wide – still arches over the interior to extraordinary effect. When it was built ...

At the heart of this bombastic new city stood the colossal domed Volkshalle, a gigantic play on the ancient Roman Pantheon. Speer had based his design on a sketch of the Roman temple made by ...

When visitors walk into the Pantheon in Rome and encounter its colossal dome, they may experience the same theatricality as its guests nearly 2,000 years ago. “Anyone who steps inside the ...

The fact that the Roman Pantheon still stands is equal parts amazing and confusing. Built in Rome in the 2nd century AD, the Pantheon is a massive concrete building capped by an impressive 142 ...