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Roman Engineering — Still Holding After 2,000 Years
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2026-05-12 22:45:21
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The Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France has been carrying water — or at least standing — for roughly 2,000 years. The Via Appia still exists as a road. Roman concrete, long dismissed as inferior to modern formulations, turns out to be *more* durable in seawater environments due to a reaction that produces new minerals over time. **[Roman Engineering — Aqueducts, Roads, and Why They Still Matter](/node/343)** examines the engineering principles behind Rome's infrastructure: the mathematics of arch construction, the hydraulic engineering of aqueducts that supplied cities with more water per capita than many modern cities, and the road network that functionally unified a continent. The Roman case is a study in what happens when engineering serves a political project — and what survives when the politics collapses.
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