Hey guys, Tristan here, and I have an exciting announcement. The Ancients will be returning to the

London Podcast Festival. Now, last year tickets, they sold out at record speed. So this time,

we've been upgraded. We've got a bigger room. And you, you can be there too on Friday the 5th of

September at 7pm at King's Place.

Now I've invited Friend of the podcast, the fabulous Dr. Eve MacDonald, to join me on stage

where we will be exploring the gripping story of ancient Carthage.

Carthage, the Phoenician city that became a superpower, an empire that rivaled Rome for control in the

Western Mediterranean, and ultimately had a terrible traumatic demise.

Of course, the ancients is nothing without you, so we want you to be there in the audience

taking part and asking us your burning questions. Tickets for the festival always sell fast.

So book yourself a seat now at www.kingsplace.co.uk forward slash what's on. We'll click

the link in the show notes of this episode. The team and I cannot wait to see you there.

Hey guys. Hope you're doing well. Welcome to today's episode all about Roman aqueducts,

that marvel of ancient engineering. I've just finished recording the interview. I absolutely

loved it. In particular, delving into the nitty, gritty details, all about how Roman aqueducts actually worked and how they were maintained.

Now that might not be a topic for everyone, but for me, I love that nerdy stuff.

It probably reveals quite a lot about me, but hey, there you go.

I hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did just now recording it with our guest, Dr Duncan Keenan Jones,

Professor at the University of Manchester. Right, let's go. Aqueducts, a type of architecture that has come to epitomize ancient Rome, and some of them

still stand as magnificent legacies of the Roman Empire today, like the massive aqueduct bridge,

the Pondugard that spans the River Gardeau in France.

So what do we know about the Romans and their aqueducts?

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