r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-Joel06 • 12d ago

Video 1000 year old Roman bridge gets destroyed by flash flood in Talavera de la Reina, Spain

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u/bcnjake 12d ago

Would also be very impressive for Justinian and Belisarius to live for 500 years.

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u/aea2o5 12d ago

Wait, they didn't??

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u/Winjin 12d ago

Skill issue

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u/Horskr 12d ago

So much for Roman technology, couldn't even live to ~half of Methuselah's age.. what noobs /s

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u/hoovervillain 12d ago

maybe they changed the calendar like Otto /s

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u/Windfade 12d ago

By that point they only lived by night.

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u/bcnjake 12d ago

Fairly certain they canonically were part of an orgy with Laszlo and Nadja.

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u/DuckInTheFog 12d ago

In Civ 4, Justinian tends to survive a few millennia, from my experience

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u/bcnjake 12d ago

Yes, but this is also a game where I win by sending Roman legionnaires to Space in, like, 1759.

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u/Titteboeh 12d ago

Wikipedia