Forty years ago, when children in Naples were playing in caves and tunnels under the hill of Posillipo in Italy, they didn't know their playground was actually a Roman aqueduct. When they shared their ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of ancient Roman and medieval structures, including, most remarkably, the first known Roman aqueduct in the ...

Roman aqueducts were among the greatest engineering achievements of the ancient world, delivering water across mountains, ...

2,100 feet of the aqueduct has been explored, the longest portion of the Aqua Augusta known to researchers. The Cocceius Association Decades ago, children would play in the caves and tunnels under the ...

Beneath a public square in Athens lies an engineering marvel that has been dormant for centuries. A part of it passes under a cafe called Dexameni, yet most patrons are unaware of the history just ...

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have deciphered the complex history of the ancient aqueduct system of Arles in ...

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of Rome’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of the city. It was built between 144 and 140 B.C. by Julius Caesar’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists at Bournemouth University have uncovered new details about the Roman aqueduct near Dorchester, revealing it was two ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire when trying to solve modern-day problems? In Athens, the reservoirs that supply water to the city are at historic lows due to drought, heat waves and ...

After moving aside a jumble of ripening melons, Armenian and German researchers uncovered a thrilling find with their shovels in the summer of 2019: Just 30 centimeters below the surface of the Ararat ...