Roman engineers built arterial roads throughout their empire, beginning with the Appian Way through Italy in 312BC.

Had bamboo been used by ancient Roman engineers, it is impossible to imagine that Pliny would not have said so.

Roman engineers built aqueducts and fountains throughout the Roman Empire.

Roman engineers and architects built monuments, theaters, baths, villas, fora, arenas and aqueducts, many of which still exist.

Ancient sources, as well as a substantial corpus of archaeological evidence, prove that Roman engineers were capable of raising large weights clear off the ground.

Roman civil engineers developed the design and constructed highly refined structures using only simple materials, equipment, and mathematics.

Roman engineers supervised as the pikemen, assisted by archers, drove stakes and dug ditches.

Roman engineers were even able to construct a complex system of chambers that channeled heat beneath the land's surface into bathing facilities that acted as saunas.

Roman engineers were the first and until the industrial revolution the only ones to construct bridges with concrete, which they called Opus caementicium.

"It takes organization to serve fresh fish," explains a Roman engineer, "and the Milanese are the most organized people in Italy."