When cliffs said no, Rome carved a road
By the Iron Gates, engineers cut a road into rock and hung the rest on wood above the Danube—a towpath towpath etched into the cliff.Roman roads: Engineering through the impossible
Across the swamp
They drove pilings and dumped stone to lift causeways more than 5 feet above marshes. In provinces, they laid log roads—pontes longi.Roman roads: Engineering through the impossible
