Show find builders secrets in cupola of pantheon architects who have been repairing the cupola of the pantheon which with the colosseum Is the most important of romes monuments claim they have discovered the th e secret of the building methods 0 or the ancient romans in flinging the vast arches of the dome up from the already high building on which It rests the discoveries are of extreme I 1 importance m from a technical point of view it Is said for michelangelo himself who built the dome of saint peters admitted that he was baffled by the dome of the pantheon and previous to michelangelo builder of the dome of the florence cathedral made careful measurements and studies of the pantheon dome in preparation for his florence floren ce labors but bat was never able to solve the mystery of how bow the old roman architects worked |