Timeline for What is the oldest road tunnel in the world?
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| Apr 10, 2018 at 12:44 | vote | accept | Lars Bosteen | ||
| Feb 28, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | mart | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Eupalinos might have insights. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 5:01 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | Any insights on how they pulled off excavating the thing from both ends? | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 1:16 | history | edited | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2018 at 1:13 | comment | added | Alex | @jamesqf: I do not know much detail about the Jerusalem tunnel, but the crucial evidence that they had difficulty in laying it straight is that it is in fact not straight, so they spent more labor on it than they could. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 0:46 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | This is worth an upvote as the Samos tunnel is worth mentioning for being 'excavated from both ends' even though it's primary purpose (as you acknowledge) was to supply water. It's not impossible that people walked through it from time to time. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:51 | comment | added | jamesqf | Might the vertical wells in the Jerusalem tunnel have been for ventilation? | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 17:28 | history | edited | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 17:18 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |