From ancient sewers to mines, here are what are believed to be some of the oldest, still-working civil engineering projects ever.
also known as Gola del Furlo, or Passo del Furlo in Italian, is a breathtaking gorge in central Italy's Marche region. It lies along the
Via Flaminia, an ancient Roman road, and runs close to the Candigliano River, a tributary of the Metauro. At the narrowest point of the gorge, the Roman emperor Vespasian ordered the construction of a tunnel called "Foro" meaning "small hole" in Latin. There also happens to be a smaller tunnel from the Etruscan period nearby. The Furlo PassAmazingly, the tunnel can still be traversed today, and has a modern asphalt road running through it.
Gonabad qanat. A qanat is an ancient water management system built to move water from an aquifer or well to the surface via an underground aqueduct. Such systems exist in many parts of the Middle East and North Africa in countries like Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia. The largest and currently functional qanat systems are located in Iran, Afghanistan, Oman, the oases of the Turfan region in China, Algeria, and Pakistan. The Qanats of Ghasabeh or Gonabad qanat, is named after the Iranian city ofwhich it serves, and is one of the largest and oldest qanats known. Built an estimated 2,700 years ago, it still supplies drinking and agricultural water to almost 40,000 individuals.
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