Dayton Firefighters rescued a puppy from an underground cistern Saturday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] In a post on Facebook, the Dayton Fire Department shared that ...

The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North ...

Some had a practical reason for venturing underground—quarrying stone for building material, digging out cisterns or mining salt. Others were drawn there for spiritual purposes, building shrines ...

It's been a constant reminder. In the last several years, San Francisco has added underground cisterns for a citywide total of 222, many holding up to 75,000 gallons of water. The largest is ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine cistern and one of its most unique historic sites. Constructed in 532 for Justinian I, this sprawling underground water reservoir ...

Archaeologists excavate the mosaic (right) and look into an underground cistern (left). Photo from Piotr Jaworski via the University of Warsaw Excavations also uncovered an “advanced system for ...