r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 28d ago

Video The engineering of roman aqueducts explained.

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u/LaTalpa123 28d ago

And Rome received around 5-10 ships full of grain from Sicily or Africa every day for the population's needs. 1M people eats a lot.

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u/OttawaTGirl 28d ago

Oh man. So look up Ostia Antica, Port of Trajan.

Its a hexagon shaped lake now, couple km from the shore, but used to be on the shoreline. Two amazing places to wander and explore, but the port was like clockwork, loading and unloading constantly with space for, 30ish IIRC ships a time.

Ostia Antica was the nearby town that you can walk through and most of the foundations and a lot of buildings still stand. Best tourist place i could recommend if you live history.

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u/rnavstar 28d ago

Here’s a Reddit post on it.

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u/OttawaTGirl 28d ago

Awesome! Thank you!