Roman engineers were the true architects of the Roman Empire, responsible for constructing and transforming the vision of emperors into reality. When you think of the great achievements of the Roman ...

Many Roman buildings did not simply survive as ruins—they kept doing the jobs they were built for. From amphitheaters and ...

Long before electricity, Roman engineers embedded reflective marble into Pompeii's basalt roads to safely guide nighttime ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Physicists have a reputation for being exceptionally arrogant even ...

Most of this would be based on experience in the field, passed on from master to apprentice. Rome technical know-how can be inferred, both from this and from the writings that have survived. For ...

What looked like an old Rhine bend was a Roman canal that stayed in use for centuries after the empire fell, researchers ...

Each student became an expert on a specific site in Rome, exploring the history of its construction, how it was built, and engineering principles learned in academic work.

For decades, archaeologists suspected that a strange landscape hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees was more than a product of nature. Deep trenches, artificial ravines and enormous excavated areas hinted ...

Imagine the Roman engineer—let’s call him Marcellus—admiring the high walls of the amphitheatre. Eight years of hard work and tough decisions and tons of materials. The best concrete that was ever ...