They conquered half the world — but their greatest victories were made of stone, steel, and science. In this journey through Ancient Roman engineering, explore how they built 400,000 kilometers of ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

What – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

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What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

From gladiators to vomitoriums, delve into Rome’s most persistent myths and find out what really happened. A conservationist restores a Roman bust. Many Roman statues appear starkly white today. Yet ...

Missouri archaeologists unearthed a “massive” 2,200-year-old Roman water basin near Rome, Italy, a university said and photos show. Photo from Marcello Mogetta via the University of Missouri On the ...

Construction work in Germany unexpectedly revealed a large ancient Roman structure used as a false tomb, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from Archäologiebüro Dr. Woidich GmbH Digging into ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...