Lifeline to Byzantium

World Civilization I

Doug Loewens

August 7, 2003

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Romey, Kristin M. “Lifeline to Byzantium.”
Archaeology January/February 2003: 24-31

In an age that doesn’t include water towers, electric pumps or backhoes, how does a civilization get water to a large and growing city? This is the dilemma the people of Constantinople, modern day Istanbul, had to deal with.
The luxury of having many nearby rivers and streams to feed water to the city didn’t exist for them. The solution was to bring water from the Istrandja Mountains to Constantinople, a ...