{"id":11201,"date":"2022-05-07T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11201"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:49:15","slug":"oh-those-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11201","title":{"rendered":"Oh, those Romans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are things I am learning about the Roman Empire that I never knew. What a magnificent society it really was.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the Romans were not only master builders of sewers and roads, but also invented traffic management. Julius Caesar restricted the use of private vehicles to the last two hours of daylight. Business deliveries had to be made at night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UMWuk133ow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penn.museum\/sites\/expedition\/the-embattled-driver-in-ancient-rome\/\">The Embattled Driver in Ancient Rome<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Embattled Driver in Ancient Rome&#8221; &#8212; Expedition Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penn.museum\/sites\/expedition\/the-embattled-driver-in-ancient-rome\/embed\/#?secret=ewzg4TNiBW#?secret=UMWuk133ow\" data-secret=\"UMWuk133ow\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What blew me away, however, was their use of&#8230; plumbing? I mean, aqueducts are one thing, but to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valvemagazine.com\/articles\/ancient-roman-valves\">bona fide valves, water faucets<\/a> in businesses and homes? Now that blew me away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valvemagazine.com\/articles\/ancient-roman-valves\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11202\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pompeii-valve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pompeii-valve.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pompeii-valve-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pompeii-valve-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of sewers, the Romans might have been master sewer builders but it appears some form of a sewer system may have existed almost ten thousand (!!!) years earlier in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/news\/8171-191108-turkey-sewer-system\">a settlement in Anatolia<\/a>. That&#8217;s just&#8230; wow.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11201' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are things I am learning about the Roman Empire that I never knew. What a magnificent society it really was. For instance, the Romans were not only master builders of sewers and roads, but also invented traffic management. Julius Caesar restricted the use of private vehicles to the last two hours of daylight. 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