Roman engineering tricks - the Romans were trailblazers in the field of civil engineering. They built roads, bridges, ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

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The famed Colosseum in Rome fell into neglect hundreds of years ago, making visitors today strain to imagine how it looked in all its glory back in ancient times. Now the huge stone amphitheater, one ...

The best-preserved Roman temple. The most impressive product of Roman engineering. Arguably the most influential building of all time. As a monument, and as a relic of the classical world, Rome's ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

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 ...

That might not sound like such a dazzling accomplishment on its face, but given the drift toward history- and science-lite programming as cablers like History and Discovery pursue younger viewers, the ...

Tapping into the current epic battle craze, The History Channel is launching a “Great Battles of Rome” vidgame, its first international console game, which will hit European outlets in May. Comprising ...