I wholeheartedly agree.
They were also better than pretty much anyone at building enormous wooden ships.
I gonna take this opportunity to re-recommend the novel, “Pompeii”, by Robet Harris to our God, Graves, & Glyphs faithful readers as the subject matter of concret brought it to my attention again.
NOt your average story of the Vesuvius eruption, the novel is seen through the eyes of the chief engineer of the enormus aqueduct, the Aqua Augusta, that brought water from the mountains to the city.
The failure of the aqueduct because of seismic activity becomes the focal point of the story and serves as a backstory to give the reader so much wonderful information on Roman engineering in general and hydrolic engineering in particular.