The segmental arch was first built by the Romans who realized that an arch in a bridge did not have to be a semicircle, such as in Alconétar Bridge or Ponte San Lorenzo.
V letu 2010 je robot odkril dolg, z lokom pokrit prehod pod piramido Quetzalcoatl, ki stoji v starodavnem mestu Teotihuacan, severno od Ciudad de Mexico, iz okoli leta 200.