The Roman Empire is often remembered for its armies and conquests. But Rome was also one of the most technologically advanced civilizations of the ancient world. Roman engineers developed durable ...
ROME (AP) — One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a livestreamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoes and ...
An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...
Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Richard Fernando Buxton taught students in Block 5 about how warfare was conducted ...