Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is ...

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

In 400 BCE, Persian builders perfected the yakhchal, an enormous domed ice house that stored frozen water year-round. Using evaporative cooling, subterranean chambers, and wind catchers, they ...

Archaeologists working at the spectacular ancient city of Sagalassos in Turkey's Burdur province have made a significant discovery that promises to reshape our understanding of this remarkable Roman ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Syedra in Turkey's Mediterranean region have uncovered a spectacular 1,800-year-old Roman stadium, revealing new insights into the sporting and cultural ...

Roman architecture transformed Greek ideals by merging aesthetic harmony with revolutionary engineering. Here, the Roman amphitheater in Lecce, Italy. Credit: Benjamin Smith, Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

When a 100-foot gage Container Crane had to be transported from Long Beach to Los Angeles, it required the highest part of the crane to be dismantled. Most companies would have needed months just to ...

The fortress of Gla, the largest fortified Mycenaean acropolis to survive within Greek territory, still dominates the plain of Kopaida. Credit: Archaeological Museum of Thebes The draining of Lake ...

It was Wachusett Dam Day in Clinton Sunday, Oct. 12 and Deborah Johnson, a psychology professor from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was trying to get that perfect shot of the watery expanse that quenches the thirst ...