I have seen demonstrated, albeit on a small scale, a technique said to have been employed by Roman road engineers. Before constructing Stane Street, they would have had a good idea of the general ...

How did Roman road builders know which way to go? If they were a few degrees out setting off from, say, Chichester, they could have ended up in what is now Slough, not London. At sea, the Romans used ...

A road or bridge made from modern concrete might only last 50 years. But the massive Pantheon building in Rome, made from unreinforced concrete, has been standing for nearly two millennia. And nearby, ...

An office building from the 1930s in the heart of London was about to be demolished and redeveloped by its owners — until archaeologists unearthed remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica in the ...

A picture of the mausoleum low walls, interior floor and mosaic. A "completely unique," 2,000-year-old Roman mausoleum that has emerged from the rubble of a development site in central London is the ...

The original stone foundation of a key Roman-era building was located under a London office. The site was likely part of a larger city forum (built around 80 A.D.) that helped establish Roman ...