There really is nothing as impressive as a Roman aqueduct, an engineering marvel built to bring water from a reservoir to the urban cities of the Romans.
The Pont du Gard is a bridge built between AD 40 and 60 to carry the water from the Aqueduct of Nīmes down from the mountains to the town of Nīmes, a distance of some 50-100 meters (depending on where you think the reservoir might have been).
A recent paper in the Comptes Rendus de lAcadémie des Sciences reported on what kind of water pressure such a structure might have brought the Roman citizens of Nīmes, and that is interesting enough to make the Pont du Gard our site of the day.
Click on through for more information about the bridge and the recent study.
A recent paper in the Comptes Rendus de lAcadémie des Sciences reported on what kind of water pressure such a structure might have brought the Roman citizens of Nīmes, and that is interesting enough to make the Pont du Gard our site of the day.
Click on through for more information about the bridge and the recent study.
Comments
This Roman master-piece displays how unique they were not to mention clever. I am fasinated by this Aqueduct. And to think it was built with limestone blocks weighing up to 6 tons each.