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Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Prado Museum in Madrid
Acropolis Museum of Athens
National Anthropological Museum in Mexico City
Hermitage in St. Petersburg
Art Institute of Chicago
Orsay Museum in Paris
National Museum of World War II in New Orleans
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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Ancient Roman water pipes were hazardous to health
The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced water supply. “It’s weighty, rude, visually, as nowadays, the water supply system, worked up by the slaves of Rome, entered,” wrote Vladimir Mayakovsky about this miracle of engineering technology that has really survived to this day. However, recently it turned out that the water supply in the Roman Empire was not so simple: drinking water in the pipes was probably poisoned, which could lead to daily health problems: vomiting, diarrhea, liver and kidney diseases. ... -
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