From the Pantheon to Modern Labs: Chasing Roman Longevity From the Pantheon to aqueducts—and of course, the Pont du Gard—some feats of Roman engineering are almost perfectly preserved more than two ...

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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 ...

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Wooden remains of two Roman wells - one of which had collapsed before it could even be used - have revealed "a failure of Roman engineering on an industrial scale", an archaeologist said. The finds, ...

The Colosseum’s arches, the Pantheon’s dome, the Barbegal watermill’s… elbow flumes? Roman architecture is known for elegance and ingenuity. A curious relic, pieced together in a museum basement, ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have excavated the remains of two ancient Roman wells that were first uncovered during road works on the A428 between Bedfordshire and ...

The Segovia aqueduct was a statement of intent from Rome to its conquered subjects in Hispania. After two centuries of conflict, Augustus finally succeeded in annexing the Iberian Peninsula to the ...

No visit to Rome is complete without a visit to the Pantheon, Trajan’s Markets, the Colosseum, or the other spectacular examples of ancient Roman concrete monuments that have stood the test of time ...