one of the first major Roman roads. Three more aqueducts were built in the third and second centuries B.C.: Aqua Anio Vetus, Aqua Marcia, and Aqua Tepula. Aided by his son-in-law Marcus Vipsanius ...

Aicher and Roman bath scholar Garrett Fagan explore ... and earthquakes. One of the first aqueducts in Rome was built entirely underground for security reasons. Underground, it wasn't vulnerable ...

The aqueduct, first built almost 2,000 years ago, was a vital part of Roman life in the Dorset town, supplying water for its public baths, fountains and wealthy households. Now the BU team has ...

Archaeologists have unearthed ground-breaking new information which could help us understand more about Roman life in Dorchester. Experts have discovered that the Dorchester aqueduct, which is one ...

During modernization work on a gas pipeline near Cologna Spiaggia in the Borsacchio Nature Reserve, located in the Abruzzo region of Italy, underground structures were uncovered that point to the ...

As they dug, archaeologists found a circular opening leading to some underground tunnels and identified the structure as an ancient Roman aqueduct. Photos show the eerie ruins. A view into the ...

Archaeologists at Bournemouth University have uncovered new details about the Roman aqueduct near Dorchester, revealing it was two kilometers longer than previously thought. The aqueduct is one of the ...

Known as Hadrian’s Aqueduct, after the Roman emperor who commissioned it ... But after Athens’ first major dam was built in the early 20th century to meet a growing demand for water, the ...

The first is that the water in the Roman aqueducts rarely stopped running. They had shut-off valves, but they didn't use them much. The water was meant to move. It would flow into a fountain or a ...

Byron Smith for The New York Times Known as Hadrian’s Aqueduct, after the Roman emperor who commissioned ... But after Athens’s first major dam was built in the early 20th century to meet ...