144 B.C. Work begins on Rome’s longest aqueduct ... the 18th-century Trevi Fountain in Rome. The only Roman aqueduct still functioning today is the Aqua Virgo, known in Italian as Acqua Vergine.

During construction work in a city of ... known as Augustoritum during the Roman era, “a number of underground aqueducts brought the city its water” and were still in use in the 1970s ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Peru's water wells near the city of Nazca are over 1,500 years old. Amazingly, most of these "Puquios" still work. Story and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss Follow ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

By using shafts, more than one crew can work on a tunnel at a time ... monuments of the Empire. When the aqueduct must flow higher than about five feet, Roman engineers should use an arcade ...

The ancient Romans were known for their exceptional engineering and building skills, with their iconic aqueducts ... Roman structures is the Pantheon, a nearly 2,000-year-old building that still ...

Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire. These graceful structures are not only majestic, but are engineering marvels that survive to this day. In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are ...

Officials are tapping European Union money to help restore access to Hadrian's Aqueduct, a 24-kilometer (15-mile) underground channel named after the Roman emperor who funded its construction in ...

The majority of the population were known as plebeians and they had to work to support themselves ... was the Pantheon in Rome, which still survives today. Aqueducts were stone channels which ...