Streets of Pompeii

Streets of Pompeii

Pomeiians had their soldiers build their roads. This shows that they placed a lot of importance on their roads (some societies have prisoners build roads). Each road you see has 7 layers to it! Guess that's why they've stood the test of time!

The roads also served as a drainage path. Every so often they placed stepping stones like you see above so that people could cross the road without getting their little feet wet! The stones were placed a very precise distance apart -- the distance was determined by the standard wheel base distance on their wagons/chariots/whatever they were called! So the wagons could still use the roads, even with the stepping stones. Not too shabby, Pompeiians! You can see on the road's grooves in between the stones where the wagons wore the stones down. Cool.