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Massive Aqueduct Found in Jordan
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:24 pm
by Minimalist
http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 18,00.html
In the former Roman province of Syria (located in modern day Jordan), researchers are currently studying a sensational canal system. It extends mostly underground over a distance of 106 kilometers (66 miles).
Those guys could dig!
Re: Massive Aqueduct Found in Jordan
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:18 am
by Sam Salmon
Minimalist wrote:Those guys could dig!
Slaves were sometimes useful-work 'em to death and be done with 'em-benefits be damned!
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:07 pm
by Minimalist
Actually, these construction projects were a way to give the legions something to do in quiet periods.
Kept them out of trouble.
Legions
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:29 pm
by Cognito
Actually, these construction projects were a way to give the legions something to do in quiet periods. Kept them out of trouble.
Good idea, too. These guys were a rough bunch. If they weren't killing people, they were staying in shape with construction projects. I also read that they had a relatively high literacy rate also ("high" being greater than 10% of their numbers). What's your take on that, Min?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:31 pm
by Minimalist
There is literacy and then there is literacy.
In the Imperial Period the legionaries were taught the basics and some were trained as clerks and paymasters for their cohorts.
I doubt they would have been able to make sense of Plato or Aristotle, though.