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Show ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. It was largely their development of tho dome and the arched roof in masonry that enabled the Romans to build on a scale of daring and mag-nificenco mag-nificenco which JiaB nt been surpassed sur-passed in our modern age of steel. Recent excavations in Ncto'b palace have revealed five subterranean vaulted rooms in the proximity of tho dining room, which were built as fish tanks and used to keep fish , alive for tho use of the imperial table. Tho vault and the dome ot round roof of the Romans served the purpose pf the modern I-beam and latticed roof girder as used, by the present-day architect and engineer. Scientific American. |