Cologne, known in Roman times as Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, was one of the empire’s key settlements along the Rhine frontier. The ongoing excavation continues to reveal how public authority, ...

Researchers in London recently uncovered a 2,000-year-old structure that once served as the hub of the bustling ancient city. The Museum of London Archaeology announced last week that a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman structure known as an “odeon,” a multi-purpose function hall which researchers say ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...

The ruins at Narbonne stand on the spot where Rome first planted its architectural and cultural flag beyond the Italian Alps. Founded in 118 BC, Colonia Narbo Martius marked the beginning of Roman ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the damp ...

Crucially, the basilica at Fanum Fortunae (ancient Fano) is the only building Vitruvius explicitly references in his surviving treatise De architectura, making the identification unusually significant ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...