Biggest canal ever built by Romans' discovered

[Viggen]

Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portus, the ancient maritime port through which goods from all over the Empire were shipped to Rome for more than 400 years. The archaeologists, from the universities of Cambridge and Southampton and the British School at Rome, believe the canal connected Portus, on the coast at the mouth of the Tiber, with the nearby river port of Ostia, two miles away...

 

...read the full article at the Telegraph

[Ursus]

"The great thing about Portus is that most of it has been preserved and there is much more to learn about the important role it played in Rome's success."

 

May Fortune grant them success in their studies!

[Melvadius]

I was lucky enough to catch a short presentation on the recent work at Portus during the RAC/ TRAC conference last April in Oxford.

 

This article although hitting one of the 'high' points of the recent excavations really only skims over (and possibly reinforces some misconceptions about) what the Portus Project team members currently believe following their recent work there. Soem of the other buildings archaeologically are equally if not more significant and/or still open to other interpretations.

 

The full project report is probably a few years away as yet but there are some good reconstructions and a host of other information about the Project at Portus Project. The computer graphics section of the site may be of particulal interest; Visualising Portus which some visitors here may be interested in following up on.