Describes the architectural and engineering feats which have been discovered and studied in Greece and Rome, in Mesoamerica, in South America, in India, in China, and at other sites.

Introduction /Norman Hammond -- Greece and Rome / Gene S. Stuart ; photographs by Blaine Harrington III -- Mesoamerica / Norman Hammond ; photographs by Steve McCurry -- South America / Ron Fisher ; photographs by William Albert Allard -- India and southeast Asia / Joyce Stewart ; photographs by Richard A. Cooke III -- China / Ann Nottingham Kelsall ; photographs by Dean Conger.