We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about ... would be impossible to imagine Rome, which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts.

At its peak, it was home to some 2,000 people. Fragments of ancient pottery were uncovered at the site, allowing the team to map dates for when it was inhabited. They hypothesize residents fled ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world ... were working in Rome, they might be tempted to join forces and rebel. Another difference between Roman slavery and its more modern variety ...

Its roof was supported by Corinthian columns, and caryatids, sculpted female figures like those of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens. Named for the ancient city near Alexandria in Egypt, ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of kilometers of catacombs run underneath the town and its outskirts," says ...

Today, modern Nîmes lives alongside ancient Rome and the two keep bumping into ... the city was finally convinced that its old museum was sadly inadequate for the active archaeological dig ...