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Buildings and structures completed in the 1st century BC

  • Solarium AugustiEmperor Augustus erected the Solarium Augusti in 10 BCE within the Campus Martius of ancient Rome. He placed a thirty-meter Egyptian red granite obelisk from…
  • Obelisk of MontecitorioRed granite from the quarries at Aswan became the body of an obelisk raised during the reign of Psamtik II. This pharaoh ruled Egypt between 595 and 589 BC…