Top 10 Recent Ancient Discoveries Beneath Cities
10 The Corduroy Road Under King Street in Waterloo, Ontario, runs a much older version of a road. The historic find was made in 2016 by a construction crew, which had been forewarned of a possible encounter with something resembling a row of logs. When that happened, they called in the archaeologists, who confirmed the discovery: It was a corduroy road dating from the time of the area’s earliest development. Corduroy roads were constructed by placing logs across a path to ease passage across swamps or similar wagon-challenged areas....