romans
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Iron Age Settlement With Large Roundhouses and Roman Trinkets Found in the UK
Over the course of 2020, a patchwork of circles were dug out from below the topsoil of Tye Green, Cressing in England. The circles — each a ring of polygonal depressions — were the footprints of large structures, all that remained of a settlement that began in the late Iron Age and lasted through the…
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Roman Toilets Weren’t As Sanitary As We Thought
Good plumbing is an overlooked, but vital, part of modern life. One of the first civilisations to really get a handle on it was the Romans. So why did the prevalence of parasites during Roman times increase compared to the Iron Age?