THE PULGAS WATER TEMPLE on the San Francisco Peninsula is a visual delight, a Greco-Roman design rising over a reflecting pool surrounded by cypress trees and framed by the green Santa Cruz Mountains.

Inside a mountain above the Syrian capital, Hassan Bashi walked through tunnels that used to be filled with water from a spring famous for its pure waters.

“The temple is an incredible finding that sheds light on how ancient Roman towns rose and fell across ... was reused in medieval times. An ancient water drainage system was found alongside ...

Archaeologists searching for a rumored Roman estate in Neckargartach unearthed an ancient Roman highway and roadside town with a temple ... wells used for supplying water and three burials.

Researchers had previously associated the temple site with an ancient water cult from over 3,000 years ago. The latest excavation covered a small section of 51sqm, or about one per cent of the ...

The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

The spring rises inside the ruins of a Roman temple in the Barada Valley and flows toward Damascus, supplying the city with drinking water for thousands of years. Normally, during the winter flood ...