This video features the Pont du Gard in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Occitanie, France, one of the best-preserved Roman aqueducts in ...

Did ancient Romans really build special rooms where banquet guests went to vomit between courses?

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Most of this would be based on experience in the field, passed on from master to apprentice. Rome technical know-how can be inferred, both from this and from the writings that have survived. For ...

Imagine the Roman engineer—let’s call him Marcellus—admiring the high walls of the amphitheatre. Eight years of hard work and tough decisions and tons of materials. The best concrete that was ever ...