Nearly 2,000 years ago, Lugdunum (Lyon) was mainly located on the hill of Fourvière. In order to provide drinking water to the entire city, four aqueducts transported water from the nearby mountain ...

This forward-thinking approach ensures that Ontario can continue to thrive as an economic powerhouse in Canada, avoiding the mistakes of the past, like those seen in ancient Rome. By prioritizing ...

The Italian luxury house led by Silvia Venturini Fendi is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. With a history shaped ...

In Rome, aqueducts and roads were built ... The impacts of the plague were immense. Agriculture production collapsed, leading to food shortages, and many Romans suddenly became desperate for ...

Joe Roman, a researcher ... She covered dairy and agriculture for The Addison Independent and got her start covering land use, water and the Los Angeles Aqueduct for The Sheet: News, Views ...

It’s perhaps easy to take staircases for granted. After all, their role is a functional one – to get us from one floor to another. And yet a staircase can also be an architectural wonder and even a ...

There seems to be no water, no possibility of agriculture, no means of livelihood ... watered by hidden aqueducts that run for miles from an underground spring. It looks like no other place ...

Most were written between 200 B.C. and the period prior to the failed Jewish revolt to gain political and religious independence from Rome that ... for drinking and agriculture, and date palms ...