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The Roman navigators brought gold coins, peridots, thin clothing, figured linens, multicoloured textiles, sulfide of antimony, copper, tin, lead, coral, raw glass, wine, realgar and orpiment. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The locations of unearthed coin-hoards from Pattanam suggest an inland trade link from Muziris via the Palghat Gap and along the Kaveri ...
Ancient Roman engineering. Reconstruction of a 10.4 m (34 ft) high Roman Polyspastos in Germany. The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments. Technology for bringing running water into cities was developed in the east, [clarification needed] but transformed by the Romans into a technology inconceivable in Greece.
The 3rd-century mill is considered the earliest known machine to incorporate a crank and connecting rod. [1] The Hierapolis sawmill was a water-powered stone sawmill in the Ancient Greek city of Hierapolis in Roman Asia (modern-day Turkey). Dating to the second half of the 3rd century AD, [2] the sawmill is considered the earliest known machine ...
Roman siege engines were, for the most part, adapted from Hellenistic siege technology. Relatively small efforts were made to develop the technology; however, the Romans brought an unrelentingly aggressive style to siege warfare [1] that brought them repeated success. Up to the first century BC, the Romans utilized siege weapons only as ...
Cursus publicus shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana Main roads in the Roman Empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–138). The cursus publicus (Latin: "the public way"; Ancient Greek: δημόσιος δρόμος, dēmósios drómos) was the state mandated and supervised courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, [1] [2] the use of which continued into the Eastern Roman Empire and the ...
Sanitation in ancient Rome, acquired from the Etruscans, was very advanced compared to other ancient cities and provided water supply and sanitation services to residents of Rome. Although there were many sewers, public latrines, baths and other sanitation infrastructure, disease was still rampant. The baths are known to symbolise the "great ...
A Roman dodecahedron or Gallo-Roman dodecahedron [1] [2] is a small hollow object made of copper alloy which has been cast into a regular dodecahedral shape with twelve flat pentagonal faces. Each face has a circular hole of varying diameter in the middle, the holes connecting to the hollow center, and each corner has a protruding knob. [ 1 ]
The Aqua Appia was the first test of Roman engineering of its type and is unsophisticated in comparison to Rome's ten other aqueducts. Raffaelo Fabretti, one of the first to excavate the Appia, characterises it as "The first fruits of Rome's Foresight and greatness". [6] Nevertheless, the Appia was kept in use into the era of Augustus Caesar ...