We know they built vast sewer systems, such as the masterful Cloaca Maxima in Rome. And the gleaming Roman baths tourists still visit today present a vision of cleanliness and purity. But my research ...
Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's aqueducts run underground, many in covered trenches. Trenches are used when the aqueduct follows the contours of the land. They are quick and easy to ...
Also, the city wouldn't have been nearly as clean—visitors to Rome at the time were amazed at the cleanliness. The hidden half of the water system—sewers—took aqueduct overflow and flushed ...
There were gods for almost everything, like thunder, love, war, wisdom and even the sewer in Rome. The Romans were always trying to keep on the good side of their gods. They made offerings at ...