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Archaeology breakthrough as huge Roman sewer big enough to walk in found in ancient city
A colossal ancient sewer system, large enough for humans ... harking back to the era of ancient Roman empires. The system operates by channeling water from beneath a theatre towards a nearby ...
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Raising a Really Big Stink
Despite this foul-smelling atmosphere, the ancient Romans are widely admired for what appears to be an enormous commitment to hygiene and public health. We know they built vast sewer systems, such as ...
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The Numbers Behind Ancient Rome: Stats that Define *the* Supercity of the Ancient World
According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished his twin brother Remus to become the city’s first king. What began as a small ...
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Ancient Statue Of Greek God Found In Sewer
Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular ... a routine dig of one of the world’s earliest sewage systems, the Cloaca Maxima, which largely functioned as ...
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Massive Relief
During the late first century B.C.E., Rome started to experience urban sprawl ... The open connection to the sewer system meant latrines were, indeed, odiferous. Perhaps most challenging to our modern ...