Concrete played an important part in Roman building, helping them construct structures like aqueducts that included arches. Students could make an illustrated list of the inventions made by Romans and ...

The Romans were clever engineers and innovators whose inventions and advancements in infrastructure, urban planning, and sanitation have profoundly influenced the modern world. Many concepts and ...

It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

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These early candles were made of wicks stuck into containers filled with a flammable material. The first dipped candles were made by the Romans from rendered animal fat called tallow. Since tallow is ...

Ludewicz, Michal Jan 2021. “There was a great mortality in Rome, more serious than is recalled in the time of any other pontiff”. Plagues and diseases in the "Liber Pontificalis". Vox Patrum, Vol. 78, ...

Qanats can date back 3,000 years, but can be really tricky to find, especially in politically volatile countries.

Water is heavy stuff. When the ancient Romans undertook to build an aquaduct to carry fresh water from the mountains into the city, they needed a structure strong enough to support all that water, as ...

These stacks of tiles are part of a very clever Roman invention, the hypocaust. The hypocaust was a space under the floor where the air would be heated by a small fire. The floor was raised up by ...

even fewer would claim that tenderness was a Roman invention. The book's bold premise is backed up by close, comparative and contextual readings of carefully chosen case studies from Latin love elegy ...

Research of 2,000 adults has disclosed the periods of history that capture the nation's attention the most - and it's the ...

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