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Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials.The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...
Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.
View Full Length Portrait of a gentleman in a blue coat, with tan breeches, his left arm resting on a water trough, view of the Basilica Maxentius beyond, 1787 by Hugh Douglas Hamilton on artnet.
LONDON and ROME -- The Vatican released photos of the tomb of Pope Francis, who was buried on Saturday in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The release came Sunday morning, as the tomb ...
The obsession with ultra-thin watches continues with the release of the Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon (USD$678,000), which has reclaimed the title from the Piaget Altiplano Concept ...
Inspired by Rome’s Basilica of Maxentius, the skeletonised architecture enhances light diffusion, revealing meticulously finished components: a rhodium-plated tourbillon balance, sunburst-finished ...
Bvlgari is fiercely proud of its Italian heritage. The octagonal shape of the Octo Finissimo line is inspired by the coffered ceilings of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine. Rome and its ...
In AD 308, Emperor Maxentius built his massive Basilica directly on top of them, effectively burying them beneath the basilica’s own foundations. Over the centuries, earthquakes, urban expansion, and ...
The use of these principles exists as early as 4000 BCE, when the Mesopotamians constructed arches and domes, and later with the Romans through aqueducts, bridges, and monumental structures like the ...
Architect Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School of Design at the Univeisity of Pennsylvania led a team of engineers and designers that defied conventional engineering by constructing a 30-foot ...