Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. Those ...

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

More than 800 kilometres long, the Via Appia is the oldest and most important of the great roads built by the Ancient Romans. Constructed and developed from 312 BCE to the 4th century CE, it was ...