Ancient Roman technology
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Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome.
Pont du Gard (1st century AD), over the Gardon in southern France, is one of the masterpieces of Roman technology
Reconstruction of Hero of Alexandria's steam machine the Aeolipile, 1st century CE
Reconstruction of a 10.4-metre-high Roman construction crane at Bonn, Germany
The dome of the Pantheon, constructed 113–125 AD
Ancient Rome
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In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
The Capitoline Wolf, now illustrating the legend that a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus after their mother's imprisonment in Alba Longa
Etruscan painting of dancer and musicians from the Tomb of the Leopards in Tarquinia
The Capitoline Brutus, a bust traditionally identified as L. Junius Brutus, one of the founders of the Republic
The Roman siege of the Celtiberian stronghold of Numantia in Spain in 133 BC