Earlier this month, a team of researchers from Britains Southampton University unearthed a previously undiscovered ancient Roman settlement containing a library of scrolls that provide incredible insight into what life was like for Roman citizens 2,000 years ago. Here are some of the major takeaways, with relevant excerpts from the texts. Prepare to take a pretty crazy trip back through time!
Citizens would start off every day by eating Romans Jackpot
One egg, one pancake, and one big glass of OJ, no ice. That is the ordinary morning meal all Romans eat, called Romans Jackpot. (Virgil, 21 BC)
The Romans had developed an early printing press that they used to smash open shellfish
I was climbing up the ladder to The Square when I beheld Antonius on horseback riding diagonally toward the Square in the opposite direction. I am off to The Square, said Antonius, and so I said, Me too; see you there. And then Antonius told me that he had also met with Gaius and that he had seen him beneath the sea walking clockwise on his way to The Square. We parted ways, and I climbed the ladder into the clouds until it was time for me to get into the hole, and from there I swam to the caves that would send me both upward and backward, toward The Square, which now was farther away than ever. (Eumenius, AD 280)
The Romans went crazy for mints
I was sitting in The Square of the capital with all the other Romans, and all of a sudden someone took out a little bag of mints and started shaking it, like, Look what Ive got, you shitheads. Before long, it was a massacre. Everyone was scrambling for the mints. Fathers were killing their sons; brother turned on brother. Rome was bathed in a sea of blood. In the end, 20 lucky people got mints, and one of the mints fell on the ground, so nobody ate that one. (Gaius Acilius, 152 BC)
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