8 Temmuz 2015 Çarşamba

Vespasianus Titus Tunnel


Vespasianus Titus Tunnel , Samandağ, Antakya, Turkey . Since the city was under the threat of the floods descended from the mountains and flowed through the city and the harbor was silted up and became inoperative, the Roman emperor, Vespasianus ordered to build a tunnel by digging the mountain in order to divert the floodwaters threatening the harbor. Legionnaires, sailors and prisoners were ordered to cut a channel along and through the rock for about 1.4 km (nearly a mile). The Vespasianus Titus tunnel consists of a several sections and hydraulic capacity of the system based on determination of water surface levels through step-by-step integration The tunnel is considered to be a Roman engineering marvel because it was cut through solid rock in a relatively short time period. It also offer a good example Romans were capable of manifesting ingenuity in facing and solving problems such as flooding. According to an inscription, the tunnel was not finished until the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161). The inscription reads: “Divine Vespasian and Divine Titus made it”

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