enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Roman brick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_brick

    Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter than standard modern bricks.

  3. Ancient Roman architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture

    Roman brick was almost invariably of a lesser height than modern brick, but was made in a variety of different shapes and sizes. [22] Shapes included square, rectangular, triangular and round, and the largest bricks found have measured over three feet in length. [ 23 ]

  4. Brick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick

    The Roman legions operated mobile kilns, [19] and built large brick structures throughout the Roman Empire, stamping the bricks with the seal of the legion. [20] The Romans used brick for walls, arches, forts, aqueducts, etc. Notable mentions of Roman brick structures are the Herculaneum gate of Pompeii and the baths of Caracalla. [21]

  5. Roman concrete - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete

    The harbour of Caesarea is an example (22-15 BC) of the use of underwater Roman concrete technology on a large scale, [10] for which enormous quantities of pozzolana were imported from Puteoli. [13] For rebuilding Rome after the fire in 64 AD which destroyed large portions of the city, Nero's new building code largely called for brick-faced ...

  6. List of Brick Romanesque buildings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brick_Romanesque...

    Brick Romanesque is an architectural style and chronological phase of architectural history. The term described Romanesque buildings built of brick; like the subsequent Brick Gothic, it is geographically limited to Central Europe. Structures in other regions are not described as Brick Romanesque but as "Romanesque brick-built church" or similar ...

  7. Architecture of Rome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Rome

    The Colosseum. During the Roman Republic, most Roman buildings were made of concrete and bricks, but ever since about 100 BC and the Roman Empire, marble and gold were more widely used as decoration themes in the architecture of Rome, especially in temples, palaces, fora and public buildings in general. [1]

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Opus spicatum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_spicatum

    Opus spicatum, literally "spiked work," is a type of masonry construction used in Roman and medieval times. It consists of bricks , tiles or cut stone laid in a herringbone pattern. Uses