In the first half of the 19th century, during archaeological excavations in the ancient Roman settlement of Potaissa in Romania, workers came across a curious artifact: a bronze statue in the style of the mythical sphinxes that once guarded the roads of the Greek island of Naxos. However, this sphinx had traveled much farther, to […]
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When Emperor Hadrian destroyed the world’s longest bridge
On 103 A.D. emperor Trajan ordered to build a bridge over Danube river to be used for the crossing and supply of troops in the imminent Second Dacian War against Decebalus, for which he was preparing the biggest army since Augustus’ times, about 150,000 men. The architect Apolodorus of Damascus, to whom the Pantheon is […]
