The Fabricius bridge is 62 metres long and 5.5 metres wide, with two main arches made of stone, travertine (a limestone rock) and tuff, a material widely used in Roman construction. What sets it ...
In the 1980s, archaeologist Raymond Selkirk put dynamite in those holes and blew the bridge theory apart. Selkirk had long had a belief that the hills on straight Roman roads were alright for ...