[SunkenCiv]

The tunnel begins in Syria and runs 64 kiometers above ground before going below the surface in three lengths of one, 11 and 94 kilometers.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I wonder if any of Ted Kennedy’s ancestors were Roman senators.

[2harddrive]

Read this cool story earlier today! Can you dig it?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is nothing quite like hard rock mining to focus the attention on that greatest of all technological rhetorical statements: “There HAS to be an easier way of doing this!”

Everything from using reflectors to shine light in the hole when working, underground navigation, candle head lights, iron tools (after 300BC). And even slaves need protective gear or they will be injured too quickly.

Iron, wood, leather, slaves.

[ASOC]

100 years, 100 kM.

Man to Romans were so far ahead of us in everything.

A true generational work.

[Yardstick]

Those Romans were some industrious sons of guns.

[Tainan]

This feat is just incredible. I have never heard of this. Thanks.

[randog]

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[hinckley buzzard]

Talk about "the Big Dig."

[Rocco DiPippo]

I went to Gadara about a year ago. What a phenomenal place. Below are a few pics. Chariot ruts worn into the road through Gadara Gadara

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks all!

Dujiangyan Irrigation Project of China

...and of course...

Fucine Lake

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[YOUGOTIT]

Outstanding Post! Thanks

I have gone in the great cisterns in southern Italy and could not believe that such large and great storage facilities could have existed in that time frame. Following are photos of one of the two that I have visited.

http://www.archaeology-images.com/photo-galleries/Italy/Campania/Naples-province/Bacoli-Cento-Camerelle/index.html

[wildbill]

Yeah, the aquaducts were ingenious and prodigious works of engineering—but just getting the water from one place to another over long distances is just one part of the story.

It’s what they did with the water that is the real story. It didn’t just flood out the end into the desert or city.

No, they build underground water systems to provide fountains to serve whole neighborhoods, self-flushing sewers, public baths and in home water service to the rich folks.

Imagine the technical expertise to control and regulate that flow of water to make it operate smoothly without simply spewing out uselessly.