The Valencia Museum of Prehistory is running an exhibition entitled Artifex, Ingenieria romana en España (Artifix. Roman engineering in Spain), a fascinating journey to Ancient Rome through its inventions, which you can enjoy until 6th March.
The exhibition on display in Valencia talks about the materials used at the time, the importance of major infrastructures to join the different parts of the Empire and the techniques used by the Romans.
The contents included in the exhibition are presented through five themed areas showing many of the great works of Roman engineering in Hispania, together with the innovations and advances made at the time in other technical fields, such as mining, metallurgy and certain pre-industrial activities.
The first area looks at construction, materials and machinery. The second and third deal with communications and the city. The fourth is dedicated to mining and metallurgy, and the last section focuses on certain techniques and industrial arts, for example the salting industry.
