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In the first century AD, the Roman sewage system was very efficient. In his Natural History , Pliny remarked that of all the things Romans had accomplished, the sewers were "the most noteworthy things of all".
[34] [35] Roman authors were not the only people to praise the Cloaca Maxima. British writer Henry James stated that it gave him: "the deepest and grimmest impression of antiquity I have ever received." The system of Roman sewers was much imitated throughout the Roman Empire, especially when combined with copious supplies of water from Roman ...
The Cloaca Circi Maximi was built in the Augustan Period to clear Rome of unhealthy bodies of water. [2] It was originally a small stream fed by various sources from around the Porta Capena right through the valley between the Palatine Hill and Aventine Hill, running down to the river Tiber. [3]
Throughout history, people have devised systems to make getting water into their communities and households and disposing of (and later also treating) wastewater more convenient. [1] The historical focus of sewage treatment was on the conveyance of raw sewage to a natural body of water, e.g. a river or ocean, where it would be diluted and ...
The Roman Empire has garnered itself a mostly positive reputation for the complicated sewer systems that ran underneath many of its cities. Roman engineering brought water to the city from the Alban Hills using an aqueduct system implemented in 312 BC [1] Although primitive forms of sewage systems have existed in Rome since pre-imperial times, these were mostly primitive drains that led to the ...
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...
Archaeologists uncover a centuries-old Hermes statue in a well-preserved condition in an ancient Roman sewer in Bulgaria, revealing historic secrets.
Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing Concordia on the obverse, and two statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina on the reverse [1]. Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome.