From planning to completion, building an aqueduct was an extremely costly enterprise, a project for which many Roman cities proudly raised funds. Evidence shows that money often came from both ...

During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman ...

An inscription on a brick links the aqueduct's construction to Gaius Valerius Constans, a second-century brickmaker from ...

Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire. These graceful structures are not only majestic, but are engineering marvels that survive to this day. In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are ...

a major feature of Roman aqueducts. NOVA: So they were actually building tunnels? AICHER: Yes. A tunnel might be five, 10, or even 20 feet down. They couldn't pump the water up, because it wasn't ...

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university ...

The restoration work on Rusovce Castle, a neo-Gothic gem located in a district of Bratislava, Slovakia, has led to the ...

Bridges - Roman engineers built many impressive bridges, viaducts and aqueducts, some spanning ... Sequence 2: Roman architecture Partners work together to create three symmetrical shapes or ...

Slovak authorities have opted to leave the aqueduct in situ, relocating a planned technical service building to accommodate its preservation. Beyond the Roman discoveries, archaeologists uncovered ...

Some of the main gods and goddesses in Roman religion were ... One famous domed building was the Pantheon in Rome, which still survives today. Aqueducts were stone channels which were normally ...