Supplying water to a city as large as Constantinople was no small feat—especially in ancient times. In this ATG Highlights episode, we explore how Roman engineers designed and maintained a vast system ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

Across the Mediterranean, hulking Roman harbors, aqueducts and amphitheaters still stand where modern concrete would have ...

Learn more about Mint Fantome, Phoebe Chan, and Victoria Roman's indie Vtuber idol group Densetsu.EXE and their first ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

This Roman senator wrote some of the greatest letters in history. Here’s how Pliny the Younger’s words have kept ancient Rome ...

The Greek philosopher Thales, who was born in the seventh century B.C. in the city of Miletus on the coast of ancient Anatolia, espoused the principle that water was the arche, or beginning, of all ...