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Dormice, sea urchins and fresh figs: the Roman diet revealed
Telegraph UK ^
| Tuesday, June 14, 2011
| Nick Squires
Posted on 06/14/2011 4:45:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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An archaeologist crawls through a sewer beneath the remains of a Roman apartment block in Herculaneum Photo: JANE THOMPSON/HCP
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The Roman apartment block was destroyed after it was buried by ash from the volcano in AD79 Photo: ALAMY
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The team, from the British School at Rome, an archaeological institute, has been digging at the site on the Bay of Naples for a decade Photo: REX
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The team, from the British School at Rome, an archaeological institute, has been digging at the site on the Bay of Naples for a decade Photo: REX
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The septic tank was discovered entirely by accident when archaeologists started looking for a way of preventing the ancient site from being flooded during heavy rain Photo: DOMENICO CAMARDO/HCP
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Close scrutiny of the composted human waste has revealed that the inhabitants had a much more varied diet than previously thought including Dormice, sea urchins and fresh figs Photo: ALAMY
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posted on
06/14/2011 4:45:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/14/2011 4:51:51 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(When anti-Catholics can't debate they just make stuff up.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
06/14/2011 4:54:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
While the article deals with a crappy subject it is interesting as revealing hard, not literary, evidence of what was eaten.
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posted on
06/14/2011 4:56:31 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: SunkenCiv
I can’t imagine dormice have even as much meat on them as chicken wings.
To: OldNewYork
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posted on
06/14/2011 5:08:55 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Although if all they eat is berries, they’d probably be pretty tasty.
To: SunkenCiv
What? No wrens livers or hummingbird tongues???? Paucity of diet if you ask me. Now them ocelot spleens ......
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posted on
06/14/2011 5:16:06 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You can't spend your way into prosperity or borrow your way out of debt.)
To: vladimir998
Seriously, this stuff has been written about for decades. ab ovo usque ad mala...
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posted on
06/14/2011 5:21:07 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: vladimir998
It’s a simple ongoing pilfering game. You write a little article and sell some of the stuff on the black market.
To: SunkenCiv
...... after digging up nearly 800 sacks of compacted human waste from the tank........The British team has found hundreds of objects, including bronze coins, precious stones, bone hair pins and an exquisite gold ring decorated with a tiny figure of the god Mercury.WOW, and I thought my dog ate strange things!
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posted on
06/14/2011 5:48:47 PM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: SunkenCiv
A “treasure trove” of.... shite???
Indiana Jones would never sink so low...
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
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posted on
06/18/2011 6:29:45 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 6/14/2011. Yet another re-ping.
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posted on
10/01/2015 3:32:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
I passed a sea urchin once, sounded like Robert Kennedy Jr. for a month.
To: Tijeras_Slim
were there a lot of pricks involved?
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posted on
10/01/2015 3:42:29 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: brivette
More than the Harvard Law Class of 1995.
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
10/01/2015 3:44:29 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: SunkenCiv
I have several cookbooks with recipes taken from bygone eras-one of them has stuff that was popular in the Roman Empire-it includes honeyed dormice-since those little rodents are in short supply, it substitutes rabbit or quail-and that horrible sauce of fish entrails they apparently put on everything...
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posted on
10/01/2015 3:56:52 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: SunkenCiv
Pretty fancy eats for apartment dwellers.
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