All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health…what have the Romans ever done for us??
Can somebody please point out which bit is the very large faucet that they turned to send all of that water to LA?
I spent way too much time looking for a hidden Saddam Hussein.
The Segovia aqueduct, Spain. It gives you an idea of how insane Roman engineering was.
Wild coincidence, I was just there today. Absolutely stunning to see in person.
Edit: This picture is from the opposite end, before the cool curve.
now i want to know how they drilled so deep, vertically and horizontally.
They were very good at sinking shafts. Roman engineering and mining was top of the line. An appalling callousness towards slave and worker casualties incurred in the process helped.
Very cool. I would of thought they used something like the archeamedas screw (oof I butchered his name. Still drinking coffee. Too lazy to Google correct spelling).
Excellent post, Pug
Funny enough, they did use Archimedes’ Screw in mining - mostly to pump out water though.