Over the course of their history, the Romans built a complex and dense network of sewers in the city of Rome. However, only one of them was held in the highest regard. It was the oldest sewer in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the late first century B.C.E., Rome started to experience urban sprawl ... Roman latrines, or foricae, were part of a sophisticated, interconnected public sanitation system of aqueducts, baths ...

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 ...

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 ...