[GeronL]

woohoo, Roman sewage!!

[muleskinner]

Nice comment, Cloaca-boy.

[SamuraiScot]

woohoo, Roman sewage!!

Err. . . Aqueducts are for drinking water.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks GeronL and colorado tanker for those lively pings, and thanks bruinbirdman for posting this topic. The Romans were great at cherry-picking good ideas, which means their main talent was in knowing what to pick. The people who built the machinery and architecture were considered pretty low class, and yet they made the Roman Empire possible. The Etruscans are generally considered the source for a lot of the quintessentially Roman stuff such as roadbuilding and aqueducts. The Roman Woodstock was held to celebrate the completion of an earlier hydraulic project, here's an interesting description, oh, try the Wayback Machine on this dead link: Those About To Die by Daniel P. Mannix [Chapter III] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[C19fan]

After the Western Empire collapsed the West would not achieve what the Romans did in terms of water works and sanitation until the mid-19th century.