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Ancient Roman water supply diagram (lemmy.world)
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[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Romans were notoriously averse to making drawings taller.