The Cloaca Maxima, drain, sewer, Rome Italy

19th century vintage photograph: The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Constructed in Ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste of one of the world's most populous cities, it carried effluent to the River Tiber, which ran beside the city. c.1880's

Cloaca Constructed Drain Earliest Effluent Marshes Maxima Populous Remove Sewage Tiber Waste

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