What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their ... The hidden half of the water system—sewers—took aqueduct overflow and flushed the refuse into the river, which damaged ...

They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ... so that their ‘hypocaust heating’ would work properly. This system used water, heated in fiery furnaces under the ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class, meaning they were in jobs that had a lot of influence in how Rome and the empire ... other fresh water sources to towns and cities. A system of ...

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean ...

The rise of the Roman Empire was crucial to the wine industry ... and the alcohol in it killed the bacteria in the unclean drinking water of the time. The ancient city of Pompeii was one of ...