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Ancient Roman water supply diagram (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

By why did they even need one here though?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because it's simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

For demonstration purposes only.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Valley was too deep for the aqueduct but they didn’t want to make the drawing taller just for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Romans were notoriously averse to making drawings taller.