Architecture

Ephesians gracefully declined an offer with the words "it would be improper for one god to build a temple to another." They managed to raise enough money to rebuild it on their own a few years later.

The remaining 20-meter-high upper part of the lighthouse collapsed in 956 and further damage was caused by earthquakes in 1303 and 1323.

The lowest rows were occupied by senators, the highest by women, slaves, and the poor.

In the early days of the bridge, ships with tall masts passed under it. In its first month of operat ...

“False onyx” is neither marble nor onyx. Such a term is applied to some limestones, referring to the ...

Mozart’s concert as a six-year-old “child prodigy” probably took place in the palace’s Mirror Room o ...

It featured richly decorated pavilions, emporiums with balustrades, statues and vases, and arcaded g ...

Traces of construction work were found on the top of the hill, thought to be the remains of a milita ...

In 1354, the earliest mechanical clock in England, powered by weight, was installed in the Round Tower.

This was the standard of cleanliness at that time, which did not include washing the body itself, bu ...