[wildbill]

Not many folks appreciate the engineering involved in the aqueducts that the Romans build all over their Empire. Some of the best, of course, were built in Italy to service Rome itself.

Also most people don't know that much of the Aqueduct system was in underground tunnels, smoothed by concrete (the secret of which was lost for hundreds of years)and with a precisely set 'drop' that was calculated to exactly the right degree to provide a controlled flow.

Read "Pompeii, A Novel" by Robert Harris for a well-researched bit of history about the Roman system of aqueduct construction.

[Red Badger]

They knew how to make water run uphill without any mechanical aids..............

[AppyPappy]

Viaduct, vy not a chicken?

[Mark was here]

Intresting.

[OldDeckHand]

Does it not amaze anyone else that Rome had “city water” some 2K years ago, and yet there are HUGE swaths of the world today that don’t - major metropolitan areas that don’t have any mechanism to deliver fresh water to its citizens?

[Shark24]

Just got back from a Med cruise that included a visit to Pompeii. You can still see the lead pipes in the streets that brought running water to all the households.

[jpf]

Cool, thanks for posting. It is amazing that so many of the things that the Romans constructed have lasted for thousands of years, many can only now be duplicated.

[allmendream]

REG: They’ve bled us white, the bastards. They’ve taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers’ fathers.

LORETTA: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers.

REG: Yeah.

LORETTA: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers’ fathers.

REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don’t labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!

XERXES: The aqueduct?

REG: What?

XERXES: The aqueduct.

REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.

LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?

REG: Yeah. All right. I’ll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.

MATTHIAS: And the roads.

REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads—

COMMANDO: Irrigation.

XERXES: Medicine.

[TXnMA]

Archaeology ping...

[Slyfox]

[Thombo2]

Thanx for the post.Great find.The pics of the site are worth a look too.Amazing what the Romans were building back then.