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 ...

Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Rome: Engineering an Empire:Documentary. 9 p.m. Sept. 5, History Channel. By the time the History Channel's new documentary on Roman engineering is broadcast, viewers will have had the chance to see ...

A recent study has shed new light on the vastness of the ancient Roman road network, revealing that it stretched far longer than previously estimated. This discovery, made possible through innovative ...

Most of this would be based on experience in the field, passed on from master to apprentice. Rome technical know-how can be inferred, both from this and from the writings that have survived. For ...

Archaeologists and engineers are examining buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology. Originally designed for the analysis of substantial engineering parts, such as jet turbine ...

Civil engineer Roman P. Wengler was a “disruptor” in the world of dam building long before that was a word for an innovator. Wengler, who died in Houston on Aug. 8 at 95, was a global leader in the ...

Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal ...