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Jul 52 min read

Won't somebody think of the children?

Childhood as we know it is only a recent invention. The French historian Philippe Ariès, in his 1960 book Centuries of Childhood, argued...

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Feb 163 min read

A True Roman Mystery

Do you know what this is? It’s a Roman dodecahedron. Only a little over a hundred of these have been unearthed. They are made of copper...

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Jun 23, 20232 min read

A Roman rubbish dump

If you go to Rome, you might notice Monte Testaccio, a green hill in the middle of the sprawling city. But what you might not know, is...

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May 26, 20232 min read

Ancient Roman brothel tokens

The fun thing about history is the amount of stuff that doesn’t get recorded. Like, it’s so common that nobody writes it down, because...

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Dec 9, 20222 min read

How did we lose the Lupercal? And did anyone look behind the couch?

One of the most fascinating things to me about any ancient city like Rome is that things are lost over time, and then sometimes even...

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