BEAUFORT, S.C., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roman Engineering "By 345 A.D. Rome was supplied with fresh water from eleven aqueducts, some over 30 miles away.

A group of archaeologists have discovered a set of six marble sculptures in Rome that may have belonged to a high-ranking officer in the Roman Empire.

Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry.

CHICAGO, Aug.

A sprawling country villa believed to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum, was unearthed on Friday.