This site, produced by Bill Thayer and hosted by the University of Chicago, is an exhaustive resource on Roman antiquity. Read Frontinus' essay on the aqueducts of Rome, wander the geography of Claudius Ptolemy, or have a look at 19th-century maps of the Roman Empire.

Elementary school students and their teachers may enjoy this BBC-produced site. You can investigate Roman history by reading about topics that include technology, leisure and education. Take the interactive quiz to test your knowledge.

Barbara McManus, a professor at the College of New Rochelle, has created a site on the history and culture of Ancient Rome. Check out her article and photographs on baths and bathing in ancient Rome.

Bowdoin College's Professor James Higginbotham and alumnus Jason Moyer have compiled a series of interesting essays and illustrations about individual Roman aqueducts.

This site offers a dozen recipes from "De Re Coquinaria" by the ancient Roman chef Marcus Gavius Apicius. Try your hand at making Isicia Omentata (Roman burgers) or Vitellina Frictia (fried veal).

The National Engineers Week Committee unveils plans for its 49th meeting which include numerous activities to showcase new projects and programs intended to spread the message of engineering's importance to society. The site also provides adolescents with an opprtunity to investigate a host of engineering achievements designed to inspire their interest in engineering.

This companion book to NOVA's "Secrets of Lost Empires" series describes each of five projects in the series, including "Rainbow Bridge," "Roman Bath," "Medieval Siege," "Pharaoh's Obelisk," and "Easter Island." It gives the history of each ancient people, the mystery surrounding their archaeological achievement, the story of other scientists who have tried to explain it and failed, and the day-to-day drama of the NOVA teams' attempts to recreate the feat.

The book's emphasis on culture and technological difficulties, as well as the problem-solving and teamwork involved in overcoming them, will thrill readers eager to learn more about the subjects in the series.

The companion book to the first NOVA "Secrets of Lost Empires" series explores how great civilizations of the past were able to build five wonders of the ancient world - Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Egyptian obelisks, the Colosseum, and the Inca monuments - without modern technology.

Peter Aicher served as the aqueduct expert for NOVA's "Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath" documentary (see Watering Ancient Rome). Here, Aicher describes how the aqueducts operated and also provides field guide information on Roman aqueducts for anyone wanting to explore Rome's aqueduct ruins.

This book is a popular review of bathing that discusses both ancient bathing rituals and modern ones. The book is full of wonderful paintings and photographs representing baths today and also showing what they might have looked like throughout history.

Garrett Fagan was part of the NOVA team that built a Roman bath in Turkey. In this book, he explores the Roman bathing experience from a historical, social, and cultural perspective rather than from a technological or architectural one. The book, full of classical references, is a wonderful way to understand what a trip to the baths was like in ancient Rome.

This book is a wonderful introduction to the Romans that includes excerpts from many of the ancient texts. It covers all aspects of Roman life, including family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion and more.

This book for younger people includes many illustrations, providing a real flavor of what it was like to live in the Roman Empire.

Fikret Yegül, the primary designer of the NOVA Roman bath, has written a comprehensive book about ancient baths. Professor Yegül has traveled all over the world to create this comprehensive study of the baths of antiquity.

Kids ages 9-12 and their families can explore the once-mighty civilizations featured in the Secrets of Lost Empires series with this fully illustrated, 32-page book. Just $4.95 to cover shipping and handling. Call 1-800-949-8670 or write to: WGBH Boston Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284.