Managing the longest aqueduct of the ancient world couldn't have been an easy task.
To give you a bit of historic background, Constantinople was named the new capital of the Roman Empire back in AD 324, by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. A newhad to be built to provide Constantinople with freshwater from springs 37 miles to the west, and as the city developed, the system was expanded to springs 75 miles away in the fifth century.
The researchers led by Dr. Gül Sürmelihindi from the Geoarchaeology group at Mainz University studied the carbonate deposits from the aqueduct to learn more about its history. Carbonate deposits can tell a lot about water management and the palaeoenvironment at that time: They are the limescale that form in the running water and can block the entire water supply in some cases and have to be removed from time to time.
The carbonate dates from the Byzantine Middle Ages, despite the fact that the aqueduct is late Roman in origin. This prompted the researchers to consider alternative cleaning and maintenance solutions since cleaning such a long channel which a lot of people depended on would take weeks to months.This led researchers to the discovery of the 31 miles of the central portion being constructed as a double canal, with one aqueduct channel crossing the other on two-story bridges.
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