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How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer

• ddedden 12y ago
  I just heard on the radio this morning that the excavators for the expanded London Underground are finding incredible artifacts while digging the new tunnels. Fascinating stuff! http://www.npr.org/2014/12/23/372623549/we-go-underground-to-tour-london-s-crossrail-project http://www.npr.org/2014/12/23/372623549/we-go-underground-to...
  • falsestprophet 12y ago
    The article reports that they found skeletons and coins. Why is it hard to believe that human remains and coins were found under a city where millions of people have lived and died? I think these findings are highly credible.
  • lostlogin 12y ago
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7cbj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7cbj This series is excellent and covers a lot of this stuff.
• qwerta 12y ago
  Romans plumbing was quite advanced. They knew vacuum. They had basic bacterial theory and would never take drinking water from polluted river. Nemi Ships had cold/hot water, piston pumps, water taps... It is very sad we had to reinvent most of that.
  • pjmlp 12y ago
    We have to thank the downfall of the imperium to that.
  • dalke 12y ago
    I thought they had the miasma theory, not basic bacterial theory. This article implies that that was the case. Thanks for pointing out the Nemi ships. I hadn't heard of them before.