Romans
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The Romans associated this period with extreme heat, lethargy, and discomfort, believing it to bring trouble and misfortune.
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For the past 150 years, a mystery has surrounded part of the City of London, where an unusually large number of human skulls were discovered, but without their bodies.Was there a death cult in Roman London? Some sort of ritualistic sacrifices going on? Veneration of human heads decapitated from their owners? Victims of Boudica’s rampage?…
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Pompeii’s graffiti is the world’s most frustrating goldmine. When it comes to ancient Rome, the vast majority of insights into their world we have are from one group: Wealthy (or patronized) free men. According to Charles Freeman[1], in all of the surviving works from Rome, only one author speaks of his life as a former…