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Ancient Web: Roman Aqueducts Is a Private Engineering Library for 2,000-Year-Old Water Systems

RomanAqueducts.info documents more than 100 selected ancient aqueducts, literature on hundreds more, engineering details, siphons, control systems, statistics, photographs, maps, and the infrastructure behind Roman water.

Ancient Web: Encyclopaedia Romana Has Been Wandering Through Rome Since 1997

James Grout's Encyclopaedia Romana has been online since April 1997, using densely linked essays to wander through Roman history, architecture, religion, food, Britain, Greece, Byzantium, and whatever historical side road proved interesting enough to follow.