Aqueducts that carried water for miles, roads that connected continents, and monuments that still stand today—Roman engineering defined an empire.

We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...

By FROMA HARROP Syndicated columnist Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation — all these ...

A brief look at the ingenious mechanisms the Romans used to create temple doors that opened automatically, powered by heat, pulleys, and clever engineering.

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation — all these negatives helped bring down the once-mighty Roman Empire. But Rome needed centuries of bad leadership to collapse.

Tucked away in Western Spain, in the province of Badajoz, lies the city of Mérida, the capital of the autonomous community of ...

Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

In this selection of essays, op-eds and speeches, the first piece written six months after his son’s murder, Pearl gives us ...

It is only days now to the inauguration of Marmaray rail transport project in Turkey's Istanbul, which consists of the construction of an undersea rail tunnel under the Bosphorus strait. "This project ...

An international investigation led by the University of Freiburg, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...