Archeologists Excavate 2,000-Year-Old Road

PARIS (AP) - Deep beneath pavement pounded by tourists on Paris' Left Bank lies an ancient path - a 2,000-year-old Roman road recently excavated during construction work. Remnants of private houses rigged with baths and ingeniously heated floors were among the findings, now on view in a stunning...

Enduring roads, hot and cold running baths, heated flooring, all this lost when the Romans pulled back and allowed the hordes to turn what they'd wrought into something resembling, oh, say, China or some other backwater culture.