Illustrations of history

There's a reason European societies for the next 1500 years were obsessed with them - the Romans did some pretty impressive things. They certainly liked their engineering, that's for damn sure. They themselves greatly admired the ingenuity involved in constructing the Pyramids, but regarded their own architectural marvels as the practical things - roads, bridges, sewers, theatres, aqueducts - fancy mill complexes too, one expects!