07-13-2010, 02:45 AM
The lost canal at Portus has been found The Daily Telegraph reports ( http://bit.ly/c1MWem ):
"It's absolutely massive," said Simon Keay, the director of the three-year dig at Portus, the most comprehensive ever conducted at the site, which lies close to Rome's Fiumicino airport, 20 miles west of the city.
"We know of other, contemporary canals which were 20-40 metres wide, and even that was big. But this was so big that there seems to have been an island in the middle of it, and there was a bridge that crossed it. It was unknown until now."
The canal at Portus measures 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide). (The photo in the article appears to be of the recently discovered ampitheatre of the imperial palace at Portus, not the canal - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8283195.stm ).
All someone needs to do now is find the canal(s) of Nero Claudius Drusus (fossa Drusiana/fossae Drusinae). :lol:
"It's absolutely massive," said Simon Keay, the director of the three-year dig at Portus, the most comprehensive ever conducted at the site, which lies close to Rome's Fiumicino airport, 20 miles west of the city.
"We know of other, contemporary canals which were 20-40 metres wide, and even that was big. But this was so big that there seems to have been an island in the middle of it, and there was a bridge that crossed it. It was unknown until now."
The canal at Portus measures 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide). (The photo in the article appears to be of the recently discovered ampitheatre of the imperial palace at Portus, not the canal - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8283195.stm ).
All someone needs to do now is find the canal(s) of Nero Claudius Drusus (fossa Drusiana/fossae Drusinae). :lol:
