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IN THE
WORLD
From crop harvesters to automated statues
and even proto-computers, the Greeks and Romans
loved a gadget. Laurence Totelin traces the
technological advances, from the practical to the
pointless, made two millennia ago
The 2,000-year-old three-level
Pont du Gard aqueduct, part of a
50km aqueduct that supplied the
city of Nîmes, formerly known as
Nemausus, with water
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