What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts ... The hidden half of the water system—sewers—took aqueduct overflow and flushed the refuse into the river ...

At one point, the Roman Empire reached from one end of the European ... a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in an ancient Roman sewer. The town was once the site of Heraclea Sintica, an ...

According to Roman tradition, the construction of ... The Romans also built sewers in other cities in the Empire, such as the ...

The Romans improved water supplies throughout the Empire. Aqueducts showed ... level of engineering knowledge. Roman toilets had their own plumbing and sewers, sometimes using water from bath ...

Arcades, of course, are the bridges built with a series of arches, and one of the grandest monuments of the Empire. When the aqueduct must flow higher than about five feet, Roman engineers should ...

VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...

VIENNA — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating ...