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« on: June 20, 2011, 03:46:15 PM »
Courtesy off BBC News  

Archaeologists have been discovering how Romans lived 2,000 years ago, by studying what they left behind in their sewers.

A team of experts has been sifting through hundreds of sacks of human excrement. They found a variety of details about their diet and their illnesses.
This unconventional journey into the past took the team down into an ancient sewer below the town of Herculaneum.

Along with neighbouring Pompeii, it was one of the settlements buried by the Vesuvius volcanic explosion of 79AD.

In a tunnel 86m long, they unearthed what is believed to be the largest deposit of human excrement ever found in the Roman world. Seven hundred and fifty sacks of it to be exact, containing a wealth of information.

The scientists have been able to study what foods people ate and what jobs they did, by matching the material to the buildings above, like shops and homes.

A street in Pompeii which, like Herculaneum, was covered by a volcanic eruption in 79AD This unprecedented insight into the diet and health of ancient Romans showed that they ate a lot of vegetables.

One sample also contained a high white blood cell count, indicating, say researchers, the presence of a bacterial infection.

The sewer also offered up items of pottery, a lamp, 60 coins, necklace beads and even a gold ring with a decorative gemstone.

But it's the human remains that have most astonished the archaeologists, all going to prove that where there's muck, there's memory.

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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2011, 05:07:27 PM »
Do you think it would make a good motion picture. Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2011, 05:47:03 PM »
pompeii is well worth a visit !!.............. Cool
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2011, 05:59:42 PM »
Quote from: Mungo on June 20, 2011, 05:47:03 PM
pompeii is well worth a visit !!.............. Cool
It was far better before the eruption though Grin
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2011, 06:03:09 PM »
LOL.....
A volcano erupted in Tonypandy last night causing ten pounds worth of damage Grin
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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2011, 06:59:44 PM »
must have been a large eruption then lol
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« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2011, 07:04:00 PM »
did they eat coins and beads lol
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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 07:14:45 PM »
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did they eat coins and beads lol

...............sounds like someone had trouble with their ring!  Wink   Grin
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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2011, 07:24:27 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2011, 12:06:06 AM »
I suppose it is hard to lower the tone but you guys have managed it!

They found a load of babies bodies below the brothel too. Romans didnt consider babies as human when they are born and would leave them to die in sewers or fields. Bit like Porth really.

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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2011, 01:08:27 AM »
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They found a load of babies bodies below the brothel too.
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That was in Buckinghamshire Wink
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« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2011, 08:18:42 AM »
Ashkelon was the name I remember, yup Buckinghamshire.

Similar stuff in herculaneum and pompeii. Kids were worth less then obviously.
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« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2011, 09:09:35 AM »
Quote from: Meatslicer on June 21, 2011, 12:06:06 AM
I suppose it is hard to lower the tone but you guys have managed it!

They found a load of babies bodies below the brothel too. Romans didnt consider babies as human when they are born and would leave them to die in sewers or fields. Bit like Porth really.

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If I'd have written that the moderators would have had the post deleted in seconds.....and yours has remained for 10 hours. What's the secret, Eric?  Grin
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« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2011, 09:21:57 AM »
Come from Porth I guess
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« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2011, 09:30:41 AM »
Gillian Mckeith would have a field day with all that poop!
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