The Underground Roman System That Never Died

Beneath Rome lies a 2,500-year-old drainage system still standing today. The Cloaca Maxima changed urban history forever. #RomanEmpire #AncientEngineering #darkhistory

Hopkins, J. N. (2007). "The Cloaca Maxima and the Monumental Manipulation of Water in Archaic Rome." Waters of Rome Journal, 4.

Link: http://www.waters.iath.virginia.edu/journal4.html
Confirms construction began under Etruscan kings circa 600-578 BC
Academic peer-reviewed source
Livy, Titus. Ab Urbe Condita (History of Rome), Book 1.38

Ancient Roman historian attributing construction to King Tarquinius Priscus (ruled 616-579 BC)
Primary historical source from antiquity
Available: Perseus Digital Library - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Platner, Samuel Ball & Ashby, Thomas (1929). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome

Link: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Cloaca_Maxima.html
Scholarly archaeological reference confirming 6th century BC origins

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