World’s Oldest Bridge, listed in the Guinness Book of Records, is still in use. It is a slab-stone, single-arch bridge over ...

When we hear of an ancient bridge, the mind almost always turns to Ram Setu. The vision of an ocean transformed into a pathway by the will of Lord Rama and the devotion of his vanaras has become part ...

In the 1800s, builders in the United States began putting roofs on bridges to protect the wooden floors and trusses from the elements. It was easier and less expensive to maintain the covers than the ...

Madison County, Iowa, once home to 19 covered bridges, now has six, five of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridges gained fame after Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, "The ...