Built in 19 B.C., the Pont du Gard aqueduct piped water to the city of Nîmes in southern France. This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked ...

Eyewitness News got a rare look inside an underground portion of the Colorado River Aqueduct that runs through San Jacinto ...

Archaeologists excavating the grounds of Rusovce Chateau, a neo-Gothic landmark in Bratislava, have uncovered a Roman aqueduct: an astonishing find that sheds new light on the site’s ancient past. The ...

Every stage of the aqueduct has to be carefully planned to ensure that the water, pulled by gravity, makes its way gradually downhill to the city. Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's ...

It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a century ago, agents secretly working for Los Angeles posed as farmers and ranchers as they bought land and ...

We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system, including its elegant aqueducts. Here's what he told us: NOVA ...

This episode looks at one of the great engineering achievements of the Industrial Revolution, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, tests the date of an ancient gate at Hay Castle and explores what may be a lost ...

As was the case with the Los Angeles Aqueduct (completed in 1913), every inch of route was battled over in courts (and in the papers). In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the ...

Related Water in L.A. Channeling the Future: Five Civic Projects That Changed L.A. Forever This year marks the 100th anniversary of both the L.A. Aqueduct and the Natural History Museum ...