Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ... among the few purely symbolic buildings erected by the Romans.

Ancient buildings like Greece’s amphitheaters and Japan’s temples remain in use today, preserving cultural heritage.

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

An Ancient Roman building site from 2,000 years ago has recently been discovered by archaeologists, and it provides us with an insight into the construction techniques of this time.

The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous marble buildings, built with superb skill to enormous scale. It is impressive now – it would have been even more impressive 2,000 years ago.

We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about ... a major feature of Roman aqueducts. NOVA: So they were actually building tunnels? AICHER: Yes. A tunnel might be ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. At such a critical ...

Grade 12 students are buzzing with anticipation as they prepare for an upcoming class field trip to Italy and Greece. For ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been ... the construction of palaces and Catholic churches in the building of Rome, has been excavated. The most recent excavations, which were ...

London's origins as a city date back to the days of the Roman Empire, after the invaders arrived to Great Britain and established the town of Londinium. Nearly two millennia later, remnants of the ...