Rome: Engineering an Empire:Documentary. 9 p.m. Sept. 5, History Channel. By the time the History Channel's new documentary on Roman engineering is broadcast, viewers will have had the chance to see ...

Roman engineering tricks - the Romans were trailblazers in the field of civil engineering. They built roads, bridges, ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

That might not sound like such a dazzling accomplishment on its face, but given the drift toward history- and science-lite programming as cablers like History and Discovery pursue younger viewers, the ...

A recent study has shed new light on the vastness of the ancient Roman road network, revealing that it stretched far longer than previously estimated. This discovery, made possible through innovative ...

Part one of three on the Eternal City, focusing on the grandeur of classical Rome. Part one of three on the Eternal City, this episode resurrects the rubble and brings back to life the capital of the ...

In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write ...