It’s Ancient History
The Pont du Gard is an aqueduct in southern France. Built by the Romans in the 1st C AD, it carried an estimated 44,000,000 gallons of water a day to the citizens of Nimes. Serious flooding over the years has washed away other bridges of more recent construction in the area, but the Pont du Gard still stands two thousand years later.
Nearby is an olive tree …
and beside the olive tree is a plaque with the inscription: Continue reading “It’s Ancient History”