The Temple of Venus has stood in Baia, in southern Italy, for nearly 2,000 years. How has it remained upright? A research team, led by University of Naples Federico II’s Concetta Rispoli, has ...

Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network was far more extensive than standard textbooks suggest. A high resolution ...

The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...

In this eight-part documentary, Roman engineering expert Isaac Moreno Gallo takes you on a tour through the different techniques and architectural elements that gave shape and life to the Roman Empire ...

Engineering and civilization have always gone together, it is difficult to imagine one existing without the other. Indeed, we tend to associate ancient civilizations specifically with their ...

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