Covered trenches and tunnels are also less disruptive to life on the surface than are walls and arcades, which divide neighborhoods and farmers' fields. Sometimes, aqueduct engineers should carve ...

Among the very few sources to shed light on how aqueducts were built is a Roman funerary monument found at the city of Bejaïa in Algeria. This commemorates the life of one Nonius Datus ...

Cicero, a Roman who wrote about life in Rome ... most people had never seen stone arches before and their version of an aqueduct- before the Romans arrived - was a channel on the ground.

Researchers in Spain looking to develop a fresh approach to finding long-lost aqueducts have turned to ... where it would have been unthinkable before.” The team chose Afghanistan’s Maiwand ...

Roman aqueducts, built to carry water to cities, are probably the most famous ancient systems. There are over 200,000 miles of oil pipeline in the U.S. alone, along with natural gas pipelines ...