(ANSA) - Milan, October 8 - Italian and Israeli
archaeologists gathered at Expo on Thursday to look at how
ancient technology such as that used in Roman aqueducts might be
used in the service of feeding the planet.
"Man cannot survive without water and the Romans, who had a
very extravagant lifestyle and needed to produce ever more food
and access ever greater amounts of water, understood how to
carry it from where it was in abundance to where there was less,
like in Israel which is 60% desert," vice director of the
archaeology department of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Uzi
Dahari, said.
"Their system was incredible and, thousands of years later,
I don't think it is possible to reach the level of those
aqueducts," he continued.
Study of such systems has fed into the development of new
technologies in Israel.
"Israel is now a global leader in technology generally, but
particularly in the agricultural sector," said Israeli
ambassador to Italy Naor Gilon.
"This is why I think the Israel pavilion is a perfect place
to discuss archaeology, because we connect past and future,
traditional agriculture and that of the future," Gilon
concluded.