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Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal What Vesuvius Victims Near Pompeii Ate
Nearly 2,000-year-old human remains from Oplontis, near Pompeii, are revealing what people living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius regularly ate before the catastrophic eruption of AD 79. Despite living beside the Bay of Naples, their diet depended overwhelmingly on food from the land. Cereals, legumes and other plant foods formed its foundation, while animal…
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Archaeologists Find Switzerland’s First Roman Bread, Burned Nearly 2,000 Years Ago
Beneath a modern construction site in northern Switzerland, archaeologists noticed a small blackened object in the soil. It was not a stone, nor an ordinary piece of charcoal. Early analysis suggests it was bread, burned nearly 2,000 years ago inside the Roman military world of Vindonissa. The rare find was uncovered in Windisch, in the…