Rome: Engineering an Empire:Documentary. 9 p.m. Sept. 5, History Channel. By the time the History Channel's new documentary on Roman engineering is broadcast, viewers will have had the chance to see ...

Who knew that plumbing could be so fascinating? Cashing in on all that gluttonous promotion for HBO’s “Rome,” the History Channel examines the empire through the spectacular inventions that brought ...

Tomorrow night at 9, actor Peter Weller will appear at the Colosseum and other monuments of ancient Rome in the History Channel documentary “Rome: Engineering an Empire. ” The former RoboCop is one of ...

LAST week’s total devastation in New Orleans makes this special about Rome’s still-surviving structures – some of which were built 20 centuries ago – seem all the more extraordinary. These buildings ...

Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network of pipes, channels, and bridges to bring water to Rome, creating in the process an enduring symbol of Roman civilization and ...

I'm sitting here watching "Rome: Engineering an Empire" on the History channel, and a couple times they've had this guy from Syracuse University named Peter Weller talking about Ancient Rome and the ...

Bricks and mortar make an interesting mix with intrigue and cruelty in the special “Rome: Engineering an Empire” (9 p.m., History). Rome was not the first, or last, military force to employ superior ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rome wasn't built in a day. Nor was it built on mere bricks and mortar. It took centuries of greed, ambition, lust, and let's not forget ...