Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

At the very bottom, in the ancient canal, “a few parts of the roof built by the Romans to prevent rocks from falling into the aqueduct remain”, Mr Sachinis said. “It is an elegant piece of ...

Climate change, created by excess greenhouse gases on the planet, is terrifyingly real, undoubtedly urgent, and enormously ...

Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...

Jon Goodrich loves Bennington. He also loves old buildings. Those two elements intersect in a new locally available book he ...

I explored the dome, climbing with hundreds of others to the roof. We walked leaning sideways ... the preserved aqueduct behind a fence in the middle of town. Thus I learned that the best way ...

A Roman aqueduct (not from Rome ... setting the standard for commerce and administration under one roof. View of Trajan’s Market, Rome. Under Trajan’s rule, the Roman empire probably reached ...

Icicles and ice dams are caused when water freezes along gutters or downspouts from a mixture of temperature fluctuation and ...