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"Increasing the water pressure" in the old pipes in the Palace of Knossos
In the Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece there is an old piping system partially preserved, with the following commentary:
Series of clay pipes with one end narrower than the other so that they could ...
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Why are/were sewers made large enough for somebody to walk down in there?
Today, I have been reading a lot about sewer systems on Wikipedia, in the hope that I would find information or at least photos showing what I think of as sewers, namely somewhere under the streets in ...
