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What can an ancient water basin discovered near Rome reveal about construction, engineering and water management techniques that may be useful today?

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Vladimir Okhotnikov is tired of the freedom cliché. The one that sells you freedom as a product of less—less stuff, less job, ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible ...

Kouvelos came to Annenberg Hall on Friday to give the first lecture of the Olympic Ideals Series, co-hosted by the USC Center ...