[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The Roman seaport Portus was a couple of miles from the river port Ostia. Longshoremen unloaded the larger sea going vessels, put the cargo on Canal Boats and then loaded them onto river boats. Outbound cargo took the reverse route.Portus would have been an enormus harbor, to go with the enormous canal.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Roman ping.

[Verginius Rufus]

They didn’t want to risk the river boats out on the open sea. They weren’t river boat gamblers.

[2banana]

Hard to imagine the Italians of today are descendants of the Romans...

[shotdog]

By comparison the original Erie Canal (1817 - 1825) was 40 wide and 4 feet deep. On the other hand the Erie Canal featured numerous locks in order to climb and descend many elevations between Albany and Buffalo, a distance of about 350 miles. sd

[Kenny Bunk]

Waddathey mean "discovered?" It's never been lost. Sure, it hasn't been open to much traffic for 800 years, but you could still have fallen into it.

Great place for a walk around these parts. Ostia is now where the Italian Government, or whatever unreasonable facsimile they can come up with, puts foreign aliens who are having document trouble, mostly Eastern Europeans, last time I checked.

Italy is overrun with illegal aliens, by the way. They make many beautiful rustic spots into dangerous hellholes, reminiscent of you-know-where.

[TigersEye]

How do they know it is the largest one ever built if they are still discovering them?