Post by Bugs on Nov 5, 2010 10:28:57 GMT
Historian Simon Schama has today published a new book which claims that the Romans’ celebrated ability to build perfectly straight roads was actually an elaborate attempt to convince the natives of the countries they conquered that they weren’t all ‘bent as nine bob notes’.
www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/10/27/romans-made-a-big-fuss-about-straight-roads-%E2%80%98to-convince-the-natives-they-weren%E2%80%99t-gay%E2%80%99/
www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/10/27/romans-made-a-big-fuss-about-straight-roads-%E2%80%98to-convince-the-natives-they-weren%E2%80%99t-gay%E2%80%99/
