ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...
Strollers along Beirut’s waterfront in the rapidly developing Biel area have been noticing an odd feature of the local landscape: hundreds of apparently ancient columns and capitals, piled piecemeal ...
There are seven Roman columns in the town park of Patagonia, Ariz., and some citizens say they stick out like seven sore thumbs. The pillars have been a source of consternation ever since they were ...
Sometime in the first century B.C., the Roman architect Vitruvius designed a basilica for the colony of Fanum Fortunae on ...
Sometimes characterized as flashy or intimidating, Greek and Roman columns have fallen out of fashion in many areas of the U.S. However, done right, they are far from ancient history, designers say.