Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...

On July 15, 1890, the first gallons of water were released through the New Croton Aqueduct. Built to replace the circa 1837 Old Croton Aqueduct, the 33-mile-long brick-lined tunnel—which extended from ...

According to Deming, the longest known aqueduct tunnel supplying ancient Rome was the Anio Novus, at 2.25 kilometers.

Spinola Palace, British era aqueducts and a cave in St Julian’s are among 16 new entries to a catalogue of national heritage. The new entries join thousands of others on the national inventory ...

Most of the 11 "superbly crafted" aqueducts that fed fresh water to Rome ran below grade, and I'd met that morning with several members of Sotterranei di Roma, or Undergrounds of Rome, to explore one.

And in Dr Kemp's eyes — even with Pax Romana and all those aqueducts — the collapse of Rome wasn't necessarily a tragedy. He explains the Roman model: Conquer a territory.

More than 3,000 workers were brought in to build dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts by hand with the assistance of steam-powered machinery.

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Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

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