If you take Pliny’s word for truth, they did achieve 10% of the scale of the lar...

		dumah 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ML promises to be profoundly weird If you take Pliny’s word for truth, they did achieve 10% of the scale of the largest currently operating gold mine using hydraulics at Las Medulas. Modern geological estimates are radically lower.