Constructed to Final: How Historical Roman Bridges Can Nonetheless Stand up to the Weight of Fashionable Vehicles & Vehicles

A for­eign trav­el­er road-trip­ping throughout Europe may properly really feel a wave of trep­i­da­tion earlier than dri­ving a ful­ly loaded mod­ern auto­mo­bile over a greater than 2,000-year-old bridge. But it surely may also be bal­anced out by the below­stand­ing that such a struc­ture has, by def­i­n­i­tion, stood the check of time — and, for these…