Flying buttresses act the same way ancient Roman columns did, countering the horizontal force of the arch. They also provide for more ground area underneath: more worshippers could fit into a church ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

ALBAWABA - Moves started by Libyan lawyers in London for the return of the columns taken from the Roman city of the Leptis Magna in present-day Libya and erected in the Great Park in Windsor.