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The Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb dedicated to Midas (700 BCE).. Ancient monuments of rock-cut architecture are widespread in several regions of world. A small number of Neolithic tombs in Europe, such as the c. 3,000 B.C. Dwarfie Stane on the Orkney island of Hoy, were cut directly from the rock, rather than constructed from stone blocks.
Opus incertum on the Temple of Jupiter Anxur in Terracina, Italy. Opus incertum ("irregular work") was an ancient Roman construction technique, using irregularly shaped and randomly placed uncut stones or fist-sized tuff blocks inserted in a core of opus caementicium.
Opus vittatum ("banded work"), also called opus listatum, was an ancient Roman construction technique introduced at the beginning of the fourth century, made by parallel horizontal courses of tuff blocks alternated with bricks. [1] This technique was adopted during the whole 4th century, and is typical of the works of Maxentius and Constantine. [1]
[D 1] A similar construction can be observed in Thebes, within the temple of Amun-Ra. [D 2] Nevertheless, this type's most notable ancient vault is arguably the Treasury of Atreus, [D 3] an imposing tholos tomb in Mycenae, Greece, constructed circa 1250 BCE. The structure is a semi-subterranean chamber with a circular plan and an ogival section ...
The Middle Ages began with the end of the Roman era and many Roman building techniques were lost. But some Roman techniques, including the use of iron ring-beams, appear to have been used in the Palatine Chapel at Aachen, c. 800 AD, where it is believed builders from the Lombard Kingdom in northern Italy contributed to the work. [25]
A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. The stash of gold and silver coins date back to the reign of Rome's Emperor Nero, ...
Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near the city of Naples have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children as young as six years old, depicting possibly violent fights they may ...
Since the discussion of construction techniques to lift the blocks attempts to resolve a gap in the archaeological and historical record with a plausible functional explanation, the following examples by Isler, Keable, and Hussey-Pailos [30] list experimentally tested methods. Isler's method (1985, 1987) is an incremental method and, in the ...