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Received — 13 October 2026 ⏭

LBV Magazine English Edition
Romans Dug the Longest Tunnel Until the 1800s — 30,000 Men Worked for 11 Years, and Its Completion Was Celebrated with a Naval Battle 13 October 2026 at 09:13

Romans Dug the Longest Tunnel Until the 1800s — 30,000 Men Worked for 11 Years, and Its Completion Was Celebrated with a Naval Battle

13 October 2026 at 09:13

In AD 52, the hills around Lake Fucino, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Rome, were crowded with spectators from nearby villages and from the capital itself. On the water, two fleets of triremes and quadriremes (warships driven by banks of oars) waited with crews of condemned prisoners, 19,000 of them according to Tacitus. […]