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Date: 2011-11-03 06:13 pm (UTC)I've read that porn of yours. Your description of Rome as stinking because they had no sewers … that sounds more like post-Western-Empire European cities to me. (FYI to any of Elf's readers: Even up until the 19th Century, most cities reeked during the summers, even in Europe. People just tossed their waste water (including chamber pots) into the streets. Sidewalks were originally invented so that the well-to-do could walk down the street without having to walk in raw sewage.) I was pretty sure that the Romans had sewers, or at least, decent drainage of the streets. If there's one thing that the Romans did very, very well, it was plumbing & pipes.
Mind you, the Tiber was utterly, utterly foul as a result of all of the sub-street pipes draining into it. But I thought the streets were clean(er), due to people dumping things into the drains rather than directly into the streets. I'll have to have another look at that Terry Jones program on Rome.