The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Ancient Rome’s toilets, sewers, and bathhouses may have been innovative, but they didn’t do much to improve public health.

Inside a tunnel of Rome’s sewer, the Cloaca Maxima. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, CC BY-ND Sewers managed excess water more than waste. The Cloaca Maxima in Rome was not part of a master plan to ...

I've spent an awful lot of time in Roman sewers – enough to earn me the nickname "Queen of Latrines" from my friends. The Etruscans laid the first underground sewers in the city of Rome around ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of perfumes, incense and even deodorants. What did ancient Rome smell like?

I: Pre-History Through Antiquity” (Bloomsbury Publishing), which she is co-editing; “66 Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic and Social Agency” (Brill), which she is ...

In ancient Rome, everything was pretty much done in public except for sleeping. "So basically you had your bedroom and a wardrobe and if you were an aristocratic Roman bachelor, that's basically ...

How the Ancient Romans Went to the Bathroom A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop’s potential as a valuable resource ...

Ancient Rome was one of the most seminal civilizations in human history. During its near 1,000-year existence members of the epic culture built monuments and technologies that still awe people ...

Ancient Rome’s toilets, baths, aqueducts and sewage systems may not have revolutionized public health after all. The proof is in the poop, paleopathologist Piers Mitchell of the University of ...

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, who teaches at Brandies University, has studied the toilets and sewage systems of ancient Rome. The toilets, sewage systems and waste that a civilization leaves behind can ...