Second Century Roman Watermill Not What Researchers Have Thought (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Second Century Roman Watermill Not What Researchers Have Thought (2 of 5)

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Overview of the Barbegal mill complex in 2018, seen from below, looking north. The two rows of buildings on the rocky slope are the actual mill buildings and mill basins, while the gap visible at the top is the rock cut through which the aqueduct water entered the mill complex . This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 5th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by G. Sürmelihindi at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "The second century CE Roman watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the enigma of one of the oldest industrial complexes."

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[Credit: Copyright Robert Fabre, Saint Etienne du Grès, France]

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