• @Tylerdurdon
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    95 months ago

    Some of those roads are still there after thousands of years. Wonder if anything valuable could be gained by having a porous substrate for modern roads to sit atop.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    55 months ago

    I can’t even imagine the amount of labor that went into building these without machinery.

      • @PugJesusOP
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        15 months ago

        Slaves were more often employed in agriculture and unskilled industry (some nightmarish conditions there - slaves in the mines had a life expectancy of six months). Roads were often constructed by the Legions and Auxiliaries. Good way to keep soldiers busy and out of trouble in peacetime.

  • @NucleusAdumbens
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    25 months ago

    Why not put some extra nucleus on top of the pavimentum for a smoother ride? I’d think cobbles would be brutal in a suspensionless chariot

    • @PugJesusOP
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      35 months ago

      Well, Roman roads were made primarily for foot-traffic.

      • @NucleusAdumbens
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        25 months ago

        Oh I guess that makes sense then. Assumed all the effort to make them so durably flat was for wheels