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Ideas & Inventions / Romans

INVENTION OR

ADAPTATION?

WHAT THE ROMANS

REALLY DID FOR US

The Romans get the credit for a lot of inventions,

but do they deserve it? Jem Duducu investigates how

Roman innovation was often a case of adaptation,
rather than originality…

A first-century AD relief
at Rome’s Museo della
Civilta Romana that
shows road-making.
By enhancing earlier
techniques, Rome
built a vast
network of
highways

BRIDGEMAN

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