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Roman buildings still in use - ancient engineering that never died

Many Roman buildings did not simply survive as ruins—they kept doing the jobs they were built for. From amphitheaters and ...

2,000-year-old Roman gold mine found buried beneath a Spanish mountain reveals how ancient engineers moved millions of tonnes of earth

For decades, archaeologists suspected that a strange landscape hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees was more than a product of nature. Deep trenches, artificial ravines and enormous excavated areas hinted ...
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A Roman engineering project that endured

This video features the Pont du Gard in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Occitanie, France, one of the best-preserved Roman aqueducts in ...
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Discovery Reveals that the Great Roman Cistern of Ancient Calduba in Cádiz Could Store More Than 2 Million Liters of Water

Archaeology and digital engineering have joined forces to rescue from oblivion one of the most monumental hydraulic ...
Ars Technica

Reconstructing Roman industrial engineering

Most of this would be based on experience in the field, passed on from master to apprentice. Rome technical know-how can be inferred, both from this and from the writings that have survived. For ...