The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off
Some would call the United States of America the mightiest empire the world has ever known. Yet over the past half-century or so, it has shown a strange inability to build domestic infrastructure, at least at the efficiency or on the scale seen elsewhere in the world.
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An Open Culture article highlighting a Told in Stone video that examines megaprojects the ancient Romans attempted but could not complete, and how similar grand infrastructure efforts later succeeded or failed. Readers interested in history, engineering, or comparisons between ancient and modern state-scale projects would visit to learn specific Roman examples and their broader lessons.
- Describes Roman plans: rerouting the Tiber and dredging efforts
- Covers the attempted Corinth canal begun by Nero
- Profiles a planned Roman Germanic capital abandoned after Teutoburg Forest
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