I had always assumed that Rome’s aqueducts were a kind of aerial plumbing, their water channeled atop arches. ... The roughly 600-acre Park of the Aqueducts has few signs, maps or directions.

Archaeologist Thomas Ashby produced an intricate map of the city’s ancient aqueducts while serving as director of the British School at Rome from 1906 to 1925. Speleo-archaeologists still ...

A 1716 map from the Orsini Archives at the University of California, Los Angeles, had provided an essential clue to its location—an isolated aqueduct section, drawn northeast of the church ...

Vicovaro - Armed with laser rangefinders, GPS technology and remote control robots, a group of speleologists is completing the first ever mapping of the aqueducts of ancient Rome on archaeology's ...

A department store in Rome has an aqueduct in the basement — and you can see it for free.

Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's aqueducts run underground, many in covered trenches. Trenches are used when the aqueduct follows the contours of the land.

Walk along the Ancient Appian Way is ranked #21 out of 26 things to do in Rome. See pictures and our review of Walk along the Ancient Appian Way.

The aqueduct interiors, coated with impermeable mortar, ... between hand-cut tunnels and laser-registered maps, ensures that Rome’s undercity will remain full of secrets for centuries to come.

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of Rome’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of the city. It was built between 144 and 140 B.C. by Julius Caesar ...