5 Inventions You Didn't Realize Came From Ancient Rome

Science & Industry

S ome of Rome's most famous innovations, such as sanitation systems and road networks, are well known and still very much in evidence. Other Roman innovations, however, are more obscure. Here are five inventions that continue to shape our modern world, but that many people don't realize originated in ancient Rome.

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