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

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial component onto the Roman Space Telescope. This device, known as the Roman ...

Already honored in 2020 as a teacher of the year for Louisiana, Nathalie Roy is now getting recognition on the world stage. Roy is a Latin teacher at Glasgow Middle who has gained recognition via her ...

NASA has awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. The contract is an indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract. The agency said the ...

Elon Musk funds AI-powered archaeology in Rome, pledging $1M to help researchers digitally rebuild ancient sites and rewrite ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

The Roman Empire wanted to reach every place on the planet and they came close to doing so. Especially if we take into ...

AS BIG as their empire was, the Romans never reached Greenland. Yet that remote island has become the place to go for those interested in ancient economic history. Greenland’s ice sheets preserve ...

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library 394 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), 48–49 (33.19.60). 3. Pliny the ...