NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Giorgos Sachinis, director of strategy and innovation at Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company, about plans to revive an ancient aqueduct built by the Romans.

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In the early A.D. 70s, they established a base in York. A decade later, they were campaigning across the Scottish Highlands. By A.D. 100, they were back in northern England, and then in the early ...

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Prof. Sage (Emeritus Cincinnati) tackles one of the most difficult periods in Roman history, the “Crisis of the Third Century.” This fifty-year period (c. A.D. 235-285) was characterized by chaos, ...

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

RABAT, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Moroccan archaeologists said on Friday they uncovered a Roman-era site in Rabat containing a port district, a bath and a cemetery dating back to the second century.

Until they were subsumed by the expanding Roman Empire in the first century B.C., the Callaeci and the Astures formed the "Castro culture" of fortified hilltop settlements — and modern-day ...

As the Roman Empire expanded, ... Beginning with a Roman invasion in A.D. 43 and ending in the fifth century, this period marked an infusion of Roman culture into Britain.