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Cloaca Maxima  

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  • The Cloaca Maxima, literally meaning “greatest sewer,” was the largest sewer system in the ancient world. According to the Roman historian Pliny, this wonder of the ancient world was constructed in the 6th century B.C.E. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Cloaca Maxima]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T4LBGGH1-4

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