The Roman Architecture
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Ancient Engineering $4.99 MODERN engineering has become so extended and specialized in all directions, that its relation to ancient engineering, if such a thing exists, is apparently almost inconceivable. The relation does exist, however, in a marked and interesting manner and Mr. Gest has laid engineers of the present time and others interested in the subject, under a debt of obligation to him for the interesting volume h… |
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Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople (Journal of Roman Studies Monograph) $84.51 This is the most detailed study to date of one of the most impressive feats of engineering of the entire Roman period and its equally impressive early medieval survival and rennovation. It presents a synthesis of historical material combined with the results of ten years of fieldwork. It describes and plots the elaborate system of water channels, aqueducts, and urban cisterns which made up the mos… |
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Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century: Raffaele Fabretti’s De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae $90.00 Aqueduct hunting has been a favorite pastime for visitors to Rome since antiquity, although serious study of how the Eternal City obtained its water did not begin until the seventeenth century. It was Raffaele Fabretti (1619-1700), the well-known Italian antiquarian and epigrapher, who began the first systematic research of the Roman aqueduct system.Fabretti’s treatise, De aquis et aquaeductibus v… |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Kavala – The Aqueduct from Mary Evans $29.99 Photo Puzzle, Kavala – The Aqueduct. The Aqueduct at Kavala, Greece, the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thassos. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1387 to 1912. Liberated by the Greek Navy during the first Balkan war of 1913. Chosen by Ma… |
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