Long before modern plumbing, the Romans built a sanitation system so advanced, it arguably saved more lives than any ...

Few monuments that survive from antiquity better represent Roman pragmatism, ingenuity, and the desire to impress than the aqueducts built to fulfill the Romans' seemingly unslakable need for water.

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

and all the disgruntled Judeans rattle off a bunch of great Roman achievements—the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, medicine, wine... It's a magnificent joke, but it's funny because it's true.

But during recent renovation works at the historical structure, they were surprised to find something much older — a second-century Roman aqueduct. Buried for centuries — and thus well ...

The waterways are invaluable remnants of past civilizations, akin to the famous aqueducts in Rome. Iran’s qanats have even been selected as a World Heritage Site. It turns out, Cold War ...

the first known Roman aqueduct in the region. Found about 31 inches beneath the surface, the 12-inch-wide channel was constructed out of stone and Roman tiles known as tegulae. According to ...