Tag: ancient-rome

All the articles with the tag "ancient-rome".

• The Pantheon Dome: How Rome Cast a Concrete Sky That Has Not Fallen in 1,900 Years

  Published: 24 Apr, 2026

  • 12 min read

  The Pantheon dome is still, after nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome on earth. How the Romans cast it -- and why it has not fallen.

• Who Built the Pantheon: The Three Names Behind a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Roof

  Published: 24 Apr, 2026

  • 10 min read

  Who built the Pantheon? Agrippa's name is on it, Hadrian actually built it, and Apollodorus of Damascus probably designed the dome. Here is how all three fit.

• Pantheon History: How a Pagan Temple Became the Oldest Continuously Used Building in Rome

  Published: 24 Apr, 2026

  • 11 min read

  The full pantheon history -- Agrippa's lost temple, the fire, Hadrian's rebuild, the conversion to Santa Maria ad Martyres, and the pope who stripped the bronze.