Soar over the illuminated beauty of Rome at night with this captivating drone footage. Discover the iconic Colosseum and St. Peter’s Basilica bathed in warm lights, as ancient streets and piazzas come ...

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I was in Rome for two weeks in late Oct-early Nov. Granted that I was mainly seeing 'tourist' things, but - 1) I saw an awful lot of sneakers (trainers, whatever). And at least 10% of them were white.

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey ... Little is known about this ancient fort, which at one time was called Cepha, from the Aramaic word for ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel ...

The word plumbing comes from plumbum, the Latin word for lead. Ancient Rome developed water systems using lead pipes, which included bringing water to homes, wastewater removal, and aqueducts.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was ... once known as the ancient Greek city of Odessos. Workers found the ...

Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self. After playing the new city-builder ...

These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times contains many references to ...