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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 October 2024. Type of aqueduct built in ancient Rome See also: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire The multiple arches of the Pont du Gard in Roman Gaul (modern-day southern France). The upper tier encloses an aqueduct that carried water to Nimes in Roman times; its lower tier was expanded in the ...
The term aqueduct also often refers specifically to a bridge carrying an artificial watercourse. [1] Aqueducts were used in ancient Greece, the ancient Near East, ancient Rome, ancient Aztec, and ancient Inca. The simplest aqueducts are small ditches cut into the earth. Much larger channels may be used in modern aqueducts.
This is a list of aqueducts in the city of Rome listed in chronological order of their construction. Ancient Rome. Name Built Water source Length Aqua Appia:
Indeed, many of the provincial aqueducts survive in working order to the present day, although modernized and updated. Of the eleven ancient aqueducts serving Rome, eight of them entered Rome close to each other on the Esquiline Hill. [6] Also, the first aqueduct was the Aqua Appia built in 312 BC by the censor Appius. [6]
Before modern sewers were invented, cesspools that collected human waste were the most widely used sanitation system. In ancient Mesopotamia, vertical shafts carried waste away into cesspools. Similar systems existed in the Indus Valley civilization in modern-day Pakistan and in Ancient Crete and Greece.
The main aqueducts in Ancient Rome were the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia. [15] Most aqueducts were constructed below the surface with only small portions above ground supported by arches. [16] The longest Roman aqueduct, 178 kilometres (111 mi) in length, was traditionally assumed to be that which supplied the city of Carthage.
Estimates of total water supplied in a day by all aqueducts vary from 520,000 m 3 (140,000,000 US gal) to 1,127,220 m 3 (297,780,000 US gal) [1]: 156-7 [2]: 347 , mostly sourced from the Aniene river and the Apennine Mountains [citation needed], serving a million citizens [citation needed].
The Aqueduct of Valens (Turkish: Valens Su Kemeri, Ancient Greek: Ἀγωγὸς τοῦ ὕδατος, romanized: Agōgós tou hýdatos, lit. 'aqueduct') was a Roman aqueduct system built in the late 4th century AD, to supply Constantinople – the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.