{"id":90584,"date":"2024-11-17T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90584"},"modified":"2024-07-21T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:06:21","slug":"three-more-forgotten-roman-megaprojects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/three-more-forgotten-roman-megaprojects\/","title":{"rendered":"Three (more) Forgotten Roman Megaprojects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHliC84vX4U?si=ejwTwDSWv__PPate\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>toldinstone<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 19, 2024<\/p>\n<p>This video explores another three forgotten Roman megaprojects: the colossal gold mines at Las M\u00e9dulas, Spain; the Anastasian Wall, Constantinople&#8217;s outer defense; and Rome&#8217;s artificial harbor at Portus.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n0:00 Las M\u00e9dulas<br \/>\n3:13 The Anastasian Wall<br \/>\n5:24 Portus<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in my video on the longest Roman aqueduct:    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-t7vBwsDkwM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Following the Longest Roman Aqueduct<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The first Roman megraprojects video:    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHDnfz8EKSs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Three Forgotten Roman Megaprojects<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>My new book, <em>Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines<\/em> is now available! Check it out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VxbXpTWmRFbUgxODVMNGRHR1FnQjVBTFcyd3xBQ3Jtc0trbGtkSGNPXzhsSTRnZmtEY19QemJLc3E1aHo3R19ULU1WYlg4d1lzakFwTWZmTzBhb2Nhd0gwaUwxTjRocUFiR0tyc2JFOEtfR2xHamlaWjkwSlNXckJpMVNWRkNONlVuaVl3bW0zWEhxU1REMl9pcw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FInsane-Emperors-Sunken-Earthquake-Machines%2Fdp%2F1633888932&#038;v=fHliC84vX4U\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Insane-Emperor&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out my other YouTube channels, \u202a@toldinstonefootnotes\u202c and \u202a@scenicroutestothepast\u202c <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>toldinstone Published Jul 19, 2024 This video explores another three forgotten Roman megaprojects: the colossal gold mines at Las M\u00e9dulas, Spain; the Anastasian Wall, Constantinople&#8217;s outer defense; and Rome&#8217;s artificial harbor at Portus. Chapters: 0:00 Las M\u00e9dulas 3:13 The Anastasian Wall 5:24 Portus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,62,7,5],"tags":[858,1196,590,1095,809,1343,561,335],"class_list":["post-90584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-byzantium","tag-constantinople","tag-engineering","tag-fortification","tag-mining","tag-romanempire","tag-rome","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nz2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90585,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions\/90585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}