Wall St. Insights Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions.  Chocolate was a big ...

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These early candles were made of wicks stuck into containers filled with a flammable material. The first dipped candles were made by the Romans from rendered animal fat called tallow. Since tallow is ...

These stacks of tiles are part of a very clever Roman invention, the hypocaust. The hypocaust was a space under the floor where the air would be heated by a small fire. The floor was raised up by ...

This short, humorous video gives a brief introduction to Roman inventions and engineering. It explores how they did not invent drainage, sewers, the alphabet or roads, but they did develop them.

Water is heavy stuff. When the ancient Romans undertook to build an aquaduct to carry fresh water from the mountains into the city, they needed a structure strong enough to support all that water, as ...

Introduction: death and the city in premodern Europe. Mortality, Vol. 27, Issue. 2, p. 129. In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding ...

even fewer would claim that tenderness was a Roman invention. The book's bold premise is backed up by close, comparative and contextual readings of carefully chosen case studies from Latin love elegy ...

The most accomplished art of Roman Britain would not have appeared out of place in a Mediterranean city. Indeed, some of it may have been executed by artists from abroad. As with religion in Roman ...