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A wall painting showing an urban landscape of buildings. The architecture is busy with doors, windows, pillars, and balconies. The colors are mostly shades of red and orange.

This wall painting is from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii.

A coin showing a flat platform with four pillars. Protuding between the pillars are triangular prows. Above is a small table or stand and some letters.

A coin showing the rostra.

A grayscale drawing showing an imagined aeiral view of ancient Rome. The scene is full of buildings and streets, and a large temple is visible on the right. There is a lot of building activity.

This illustration, from 1899, imagines the building work in the time of Emperor Augustus.

A photo of a bee hive covered with bees. The hexagonal comb is visible.

A photo showing the remains of an ancient town in a flat, desert landscape. A few pillars and arches still stand.

The archaeological site of Timgad.

A photo of the remains of a Roman temple with three columns still standing. The steps up to the temple still remain and behind it is a very tall brick wall.

Parts of the Temple of Mars Ultor still stand in Rome. Behind the temple can be seen the firewall built by Augustus, which separates his forum from the Subura.

A photo of a wall made of roughly square blocks of rock which have an uneven surface and lots of little holes.

One of the most widely used stones was tufa, a volcanic stone which is porous, soft, relatively light, and readily available in the area in and around Rome.

Part of a Roman brick, broken on one side. Printed on its surface is a stamp in a crescent shape with capital letters.

The stamp on this brick shows that it was made at the brickyard of Titus Greius Ianuarius. It can be dated to ad 60–93.

A photo from inside a round building looking up at the ceiling. It is decorated with panels and a circular hole at the center lets in a beam of light.

The dome of the Pantheon.

A photo of the remains of a Roman aqueduct standing on a grassy field. At points it is three arches high and made of bricks. Behind is a clear blue sky.

This aqueduct, now called the Acueducto de los Milagros (Aqueduct of the Miracles) was built during the first century ad to supply the colony of Emerita Augusta (modern Mérida) in Spain.

A wall painting of a scene of five men building a brick wall. Two stand at the top of a ladder on a scaffold structure laying the bricks. One is halfway up the ladder, and two more are on the ground.

This wall painting shows a team of builders constructing a wall. It is from the Hypogeum of Trebius Justus along the Via Latina in Rome.

A photo of a brick wall. On the left the bricks are laid horizontally and are rectangular. On the right the bricks are cut into diamonds and laid in a criss-cross pattern.

This section of wall demonstrates two styles of Roman wall. On the left opus testaceum, and on the right opus reticulatum.

A marble column with grooves all around and an ornately decorated top with leaves and vines.

This marble column is from the early second century ad and is over 13 feet in height.

A photo of a large crane with a big wheel and ropes reaching down to the ground. It stands on a patch of grass with trees behind and to the left.

This replica Roman crane is capable of lifting loads of up to 5 tons to a height of 26 feet.

A photo of an brick wall on which a notice is painted. The notice is covered in a sheet of transparent glass. Behind, to the left, is a brick arch.

The edict of the aedile Marcus Alficius Paulus was painted on a wall next to a water tower in Herculaneum. The words are still partly visible today.

A photo of a wall. The bottom half is painted red and the top half is white with notices in red painted across it. The building has small windows and a modern roof.

Political graffiti, endorsing the election of individuals to public offices, can still be seen on the walls in Pompeii. Professional signwriters were hired by candidates or their supporters to paint slogans on the walls.

A photo of a room with a low ceiling. Along the walls are small semi-circular holes, decorated on either side with carved pillars and pediments above.

This is the inside of the columbārium of Pomponius Hylas, near Rome. Columbaria are chambers where the Romans kept the ashes of the dead. The small niches on the walls would have held cinerary urns.

A painting of a rural landscape. On the left stand the remains of a large amphitheater, partially destroyed, and on the right a triumphal arch. In the foreground are slabs of marble, some of which people are sitting on.

Giovanni Paolo Panini painted this view of the Colosseum in 1747. It is an imagined landscape, showing both the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine at their best angles. He has also included a famous vase (bottom left), which is now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris.