Historical and technical notes on aqueducts from prehistoric to medieval Times

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1996-2025

  De Feo, Giovanni ^a   Angelakis, Andreas N ^b   Antoniou, Georgios P ^c   El Gohary, Fatma ^d   Haut, Benoît ^e   Passchier, Cees W ^f   Zheng, Xiao Yun ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b Institute of Iraklion National Foundation for Agricultural Research (NAGREF)   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Aqua claudia; Aqua marcia; Aspendos; Byzantines; Eupalinos; Gier; Hellenes; Knossos; Minoan; Nimes; Pergamon; Romans; Segovia; Valens

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AQUA CLAUDIA; AQUA MARCIA; ASPENDOS; BYZANTINES; EUPALINOS; GIER; HELLENES; KNOSSOS; MINOAN; NIMES; PERGAMON; ROMANS; SEGOVIA; VALENS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

CIVILIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; MEDIEVAL; SPRING WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA; NORTH AMERICA;

MARCIA;

EID: 84890254183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w5041996     Document Type: Review

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