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 ...

Walking through the ruins of Rome, I was struck by the majesty of a civilisation that understood the power of preservation. The Colosseum at sunset, the fractured yet unbowed pillars of the Roman ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

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

Stories of he Roman Empire have been passed down through generations , and evidence of its existence is the remains and ...

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 ...

A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected ...

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 ...