Roman work of another sort has survived the centuries, too. “De Architectura” is a ten-book series by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, an engineer and architect of the first century BC, who is ...

A 1,700-year-old Roman Bath with underfloor heating system was discovered in Elazığ, Turkey, shows the ingenuity of Roman ...

In a new study, researchers found a key ingredient in durable Roman concrete that could make today's buildings last longer.

Archaeology & History Huge! A Roman Engineering Marvel Reaching Across a Spanish City Made from more than 20,000 blocks of granite, the aqueduct doesn't use mortar.

Concrete has a massive carbon footprint. One researcher from the University of Auckland is working to reduce it by studying ancient Roman techniques. Using natural volcanic materials and industrial ...

The division between "science" and "engineering" that leads physicists to look down at engineers is ultimately pretty arbitrary.

Wooden remains of two Roman wells - one of which had collapsed before it could even be used - have revealed "a failure of Roman engineering on an industrial scale", an archaeologist said. The ...

That "sometimes" is doing a lot of work there and feels like a bit of journalistic license, because even an interested tourist level knowledge of the scope of Roman hydraulic engineering in e.g ...

Wooden remains of two Roman wells - one of which had collapsed before it could even be used - have revealed "a failure of Roman engineering on an industrial scale", an archaeologist said. The ...