Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

It was a long way away from the comforts of Rome, a lonely outpost in a cold, gray land. Standing in the watchtower, the Roman soldiers looked out across the hills, keeping an eye out for signs of ...

Hubert Robert, "Ruins of a Roman Bath with Washerwomen" (after 1766), oil on canvas, 54 x 41 1/2 inches (courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) Bathing in massive public baths was once a hallmark of ...

Ever go swimming with rings on your fingers or hoops in your ears only to find your jewelry had vanished after your dip? If so, you've got something in common with ancient Romans. A new study of ...

Although dedicating much of the treatise to construction and materials, book VIII is about water: how to capture and store water and the architectural constructions that serve this purpose. Water was ...

Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy (c. 4th century CE) (photo courtesy Isabella Baldini) What could be better in antiquity — and today — than relaxing at ...