15 Oct 2015

Early Roman Architecture - Prof Robert Hannah

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 15 October 2015

Rome wasn't built in a day - in fact, new research shows that Roman architects spent up to a year monitoring the sunlight and where it falls on certain important dates in the Roman calendar before designing a building. Professor Robert Hannah has been in Italy studying ancient Roman buildings, and has also featured in a documentary about the subject on the History channel.

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