The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter. Saving Tips June 10, 2026 The Aqueduct of Segovia rises out of the Plaza del Azoguejo in central Spain with granite arches stacked in two…
In 1901, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded lump of bronze out of a Roman shipwreck, and it sat in an Athens museum for half a century before anyone realised they had found a 2,000-year-old computer that could predict eclipses 19 years in advance. Saving Tips June 1, 2026 In the spring of 1900, a crew of Symi sponge divers en route to fishing grounds off North Africa were…
