the romans had this thing called the forum romanum which they used for political and religious center, like a town square or an ancient mall. their city planning skills also include paved roads, sewers, running water, and city squares.
the way that they got their running water was a marvel of engineering, the used AQUADUCTS- giant concrete structure that brought water from the mountains to the towns at an incline of a half inch per mile. aquaducts used the power of gravity to function. aquaducts are composed of archs and vaults. the romans were so smart that they knew that concrete contracted and expanded with the temp so they only worked on or made aquaducts between april 1st and november 1st. Rome had 77 aquaducts, thats like 350 million gallons.
This is a small little head with glass paste eyes, i dont have much info on him but i know that his name was agustas and i believe he was an emperor.
There is this statue in rome that used to be a guy sitting and it was 30 ft tall, but some thing happened to the body so now all weve got is his head and its called "constantine the great". Constantine was a roman emperor who made being a christian legal. the eyes of that statue are huge in proportion to the rest of the face because if you were looking up at it it would appear to be regular proportion, also the early christians believed that the eyes were a window into the soul. Constantines mom is responsibke for early catholic holy spots.
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