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Sometimes, aqueduct engineers should carve a tunnel ... slaves can crawl down stone steps to clean the tunnel. They can fill buckets with silt or chipped-out calcium deposits left behind from ...

a Roman aqueduct—the first one ever found in the country. Dating back to the second century, the underground, stone channel was likely built to transport water to an ancient bathhouse.

Lyndhurst is most famous, largest, and most accessible of the surviving riverfront estates of the Gilded Age. Managed maintained today by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it is open to ...

The discovery of a stone aqueduct underscores the engineering utilized by Abarkuh's ancient inhabitants. According to ...

there were large halls and alcoves and a stone aqueduct system to transport water through the settlement. “The spaces between these stone beds were turned into gardens by the ancients ...

Experts estimate that engineers used 56 tons of material, including stone and over 80 tiles, to construct the aqueduct. "Nothing of the sort has been found in Slovakia before," said research ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of ancient Roman and medieval structures, including, most remarkably, the first known Roman aqueduct in ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago. The Greek capital, one of Europe's ...