Water is the source of life for living organisms. Human being needs water to live like other living organisms. Water is the basic necessity for building a civilization. On the other hand, the ancient and medival cities were built in walls. It means that in case of a siege water should have been restored in order to resist the hunger and thirsty.

Since the beginning of building villages and cities, the human being has been looking for solutions to solve this problem. Cistern is one of the solutions. They were built so big that the water storage was a big capacity. For example, it is guessed that there are hunderds of cistern in old Constantinople. Some of them are very big, some of them are small. The purpose was common; to keep water. Roman engineers did a great job to achieve this goal. Even today we admire this technology.

Also we can express those statements for other smaller sites. We can come across cisterns in every ancient site. This construction method contiuned in medival age.

Basically, controlling water is the key of building a civilization. Ones who achieve this can control all life. We still talk about Roman technology and use them at present.

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It is certain that the ancient sites such as Smyrna were complex sites. We can come across every sort of facilities in those sites. During the archeological excavations, we realize that they are more than residence sites.

Ancient times were different when they compared to present. A health center was discovered very close to Smyrna ancient site. According to the archeological items, it was an important health center. Some illness’ were examined and some medical operations were done. A mountain that was named as Olympos in ancient era was the center. Those medical operations were orthopedic applications that were very difficult even for today.

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