The wooden tree-trunk piping is just another method that Roman plumbers must have used to handle hydro-logistics in their settlements.

Environmental pollution: Extensive use of lead in plumbing, construction ... 15 BCE (The rise of the Roman empire) Lead ...

The Roman Empire is lauded for its population and geographic ... Evidence suggests the cities were developed with grids and evidence of advanced plumbing, not seen again until Ancient Rome.

Roman toilets had their own plumbing and sewers ... Theatres were built throughout the Roman Empire. Their design was usually a semi-circle arrangement of seats around a stage where performances ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average 2.5 to 3 point reduction in IQ due to atmospheric lead, according to a study published January 6 in the journal ...