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• - Illustrated extract from Gert Sperling's contribution to 'Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics', a volume of papers from a conference in 1998.
  
• - Tore Kjeilen provides a plan and brief description of the substantial remains of this Roman town in North Africa - a World Heritage Site. Photograph of Trajan's Arch.
  
• - Howard Partridge provides a gallery of his photographs of buildings and ruins in Rome from c.179 BC to 141 AD. Part of the Cupola Collection.
  
• - David Chaszar's photographs and descriptions of various ancient Roman ruins located in Rome and Ostia.
  
• - James Grout's collection of articles, plans and pictures of ancient Rome and its remains, with an extensive bibliography. Includes Vitruvius's comments on temple architecture.
  
• - McMaster University's history, image database and discussion of this 100-foot marble sculptural monument built during the reign of Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD).
  
• - Great Buildings Online provides images and commentary on some of the best-known buildings of the Roman world.
  
• - This study of the forum by the University of Virginia includes a photographic survey of its architecture and sensitive maps of Pompeii and its forum leading to 360-degree panoramas.
  
• - Ulysses Vestal's collection of resources that pertain to the monuments of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, including primary sources, bibliography and a chronology of building during the fifties B.C.
  
• - An illustrated essay with bibliography by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University on the Late Roman palace at Split (Spalato) whose ruins survived to influence Neo-Classical architects.
  
• - Essay on the design and functions of Roman Baths by J.K.Gillon.
  
• - Photographs and description of the Forum Romanum, monument by monument, by René Seindal.
  
• - Essay on the construction and decoration of the Pompeian House.
  
• - A short slide-show of computer-generated views by Stephanie Phan of the Baths of Caracalla.
  
• - Comprehensive coverage by Andrea and Daniele Pepe and Catherine McElwee of the history and architecture of greatest amphitheatre of antiquity, built by the Flavian emperors in the first century AD.
  
• - This bibliography compiled by Joshua Brandt lists sources in German, Italian, French, and (primarily) English.
  
• - Virtual reconstructions of the Theatre of Marcellus and Circus Maximus.
  
• - This section of Bill Thayer's huge Lacus Curtius site provides many photographs of cities and monuments of the ancient Roman world, some with detailed commentary.
  
• - Computer model of the temple complex built by Sulla, complete with walkthroughs. Also photographs of the existing remains.