A massive sewer dating back to Ancient Rome has been unearthed in Turkey in a historic place dubbed the "City of Gladiators".

The ancient sewage system, discovered in the historic city of Stratonikeia in Mugla, Turkey, dates back around 2,250 years to ...

Parts of the sewage system were initially found back in 2019, and the complex system has been tracked from the North city ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization that ... not "useless Greek buildings" or "idle Egyptian pyramids". The sewage system in Rome was so advanced, that nothing like it was built again ...

Despite this foul-smelling atmosphere, the ancient Romans are widely admired for what appears to be an enormous commitment to hygiene and public health. We know they built vast sewer systems, such as ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular ... a routine dig of one of the world’s earliest sewage systems, the Cloaca Maxima, which largely functioned as ...

When the Romans invaded in AD43, they really liked Ancient ... built sewage systems and paved, straight roads that stretched right across the country to connect up all their new Roman towns.