Tucked away in Western Spain, in the province of Badajoz, lies the city of Mérida, the capital of the autonomous community of ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

The Vatican Obelisk is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Rolf Süssbrich CC BY 3.0 The rise of Rome was deeply shaped by the ...

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll and local officials held a press conference on Wednesday to highlight the department's various projects from the 2025 season and to ...

Washington — As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ...

They conquered half the world — but their greatest victories were made of stone, steel, and science. In this journey through Ancient Roman engineering, explore how they built 400,000 kilometers of ...

Roman aqueducts are often hailed as remarkable feats of engineering, showcasing the ingenuity of the ancient Romans. These structures, spanning miles, were designed with precision to transport water ...