Aqueducts that carried water for miles, roads that connected continents, and monuments that still stand today—Roman engineering defined an empire.

How did a Roman emperor build a bridge over a mile long? Or a dam taller than any other for a thousand years? Explore the engineering secrets and tragic disappearance of three Roman marvels: Trajan's ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

He installed dozens of life-size figures on a beach, where some are swallowed by the surf every few hours. Others stand in ...

In this selection of essays, op-eds and speeches, the first piece written six months after his son’s murder, Pearl gives us ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — and ...

The 'bridge under a bridge' is perhaps the best example of the way travel in North Wales was transformed in the 19th century ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Here are 15 supposedly “basic” trivia questions most adults can’t actually answer. Let’s see how many you get right. Many ...