Nearly two thousand years old, yet still standing in perfect balance. The Pantheon remains one of the greatest achievements in architectural history.

In this episode, we travel back to ancient Rome to uncover how Emperor Hadrian and his engineers created the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, and how their vision of harmony between heaven and earth shaped architecture for centuries to come.

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