Rome, for example, was supplied by aqueducts totaling 315 miles in length. Of that, 269 miles ran underground and 46 total miles aboveground; however, only about 36 miles consisted of arched ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman ...

Every stage of the aqueduct has to be carefully planned to ensure that the water, pulled by gravity, makes its way gradually downhill to the city. Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's ...

Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire. These graceful structures are not only majestic, but are engineering marvels that survive to this day. In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are ...

Rome’s 11 aqueducts, some extending for more than 50 miles, transported enough water to feed the city’s 591 public fountains, as well as countless private residences. However, experts have ...

One famous domed building was the Pantheon in Rome, which still survives today. Aqueducts were stone channels which were normally built on top of stone arches. They carried water from mountain ...

The Colosseum is the most-visited ... Likewise for the Aqueduct Park, which is a fascinating example of Roman ingenuity and engineering expertise. After the tour, we went over to the Jewish ...

About nine miles outside the center of Rome, these sites draw only a tiny fraction of the number of people that crowd the Colosseum, so visiting them is a much more relaxed experience. If your ...

In Rome, STUDIOTAMAT wove history with the contemporary in its recent residential project, House on Track, located on the second floor of a 19th-century building.