From a small city-state on the Tiber, Rome grew into a vast empire spanning Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its legions conquered lands, its laws shaped governance, and its roads and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-seven kilometers east of Rome sit the remains of a communal latrine whose concrete has endured for nearly 2,000 years. It ...

Drawing on the famous judgment of Edward Gibbon and the testimony of ancient sources, this detailed historical analysis explores the Roman Empire between 98 and 180 AD, the age of the so-called Five ...

In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...

A new analysis of Hadrian’s Villa's concrete reveals how slowly forming calcite helped seal cracks, reinforce pores, and preserve ancient Roman infrastructure for nearly 2,000 years. Hadrian’s Villa ...

After mapping around 185,896 miles of Roman roads, a team of archaeologists has found that some of our most basic assumptions about them may be way off.