The arch was used by the early cultures of the Mediterranean area chiefly for underground drains, but it was the Romans who first developed and used the arch extensively in aboveground structures.
Held as a place where one of the oldest civilizations of the world prospered, Rome is where you'd get to see numerous castles, palaces, archaic edifices, fountains, squares and well-manicured parks.
Both men emphasized the dirt and exhaustion of war, the illusions of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.
Some have vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have undergone changes as they have come into contact with an expanding machine civilization.