Ancient Romans built their towns using astronomically aligned grids, an Italian study, which examined the orientation of virtually all Roman towns in Italy, has concluded.

"It emerged that these towns were not laid out at random. On the contrary, they were planned following strong symbolic aspects, all linked to astronomy," Giulio Magli, of the mathematics department at Milan’s Polytechnic University, told Discovery News.

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Nonsense. Those primitives couldn't have known anything, since they weren't equal and democratic.