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Drain Carthage's Harbor: Rome's Impossible Three Hours
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Drain Carthage's Harbor: Rome's Impossible Three Hours

A Roman engineer's impossible feat lasted exactly three hours in 146 BCE—long enough to end the ancient world's greatest maritime empire forever.

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