Questions tagged [technology]

For questions about using Latin or Greek to speak about technology. For using modern technology to write these languages, see the tags 'latin-on-devices' and 'greek-on-devices'.

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A source of information on Roman mints

I would like to understand how the Romans minted coins. Mining, smelting and refining are no mystery; I can envision ways in which uniform coin-blanks might have been made : but the big problems are (1) the striking of the coins themselves, and (2)…
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Did Frontinus mention siphons?

On a rather informative website on aqueducts, I came across the following passage: Frontinus is another classical author who wrote about aqueducts. Around 100 AD he was supervising the aqueducts of Rome and wrote the book 'de aquae ductu'.…
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