For well over 2,000 years, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio has existed as a kind of myth in the history of architecture and civil engineering. We know him as the “father of architecture,” the author of the ...

The remains of the only basilica designed by Vitruvius have been confirmed in Fano, connecting his classic text with real ...

Crucially, the basilica at Fanum Fortunae (ancient Fano) is the only building Vitruvius explicitly references in his surviving treatise De architectura, making the identification unusually significant ...

Archaeologists at Fano, Italy, unearthed a basilica that could only be compared to the ...

Archaeologists in Italy discovered a 2,000-year-old basilica linked to Vitruvius, the legendary Roman engineer and architect who wrote De Architectura.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is considered the “father of architecture,” but the one building whose design he described in detail had ...

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed the remains of a 2,000-year-old basilica designed by the pioneering ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. Italy's Culture Minister, Alessandro Giuli, likened the ...

Structure in Fano matches Vitruvius’ ancient descriptions Archaeologists call the find a 'discovery of the century' Further digs will show if, how the site can be open to visitors ROME, Jan 19 ...

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The only building described in detail by Vitruvius has finally been found, after centuries of searching.