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The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.
Beautiful Roman marble sculpture depicting an eagle. The object is located on the altar and dates to the 1st century CE. The object was found by Horatio Walpole in the remains of the baths of Caracalla in 1742. It is probably the best-preserved sculpture of an eagle, next to the “apotheosis of Claudius”. The facility is located at Strawberry Hill House in London.
With the expansion of the Roman republic in the second and first century BCE intensified slavery. Some sources say that in the first century BCE in Italy alone there were 2-3 million slaves, which constituted 35-40% of the population on the Apennine peninsula.
Roman gold snake-shaped bracelet. Dated to 1st BCE – 1st century CE. It was sold for 16,250 dollars when its value was estimated at 3000-5000 dollars.
As it turns out, the Roman way of counting and determining specific days in a month was different from what we use now. Ancient Romans used the following terms: calends, nones, ides.
Bronze statuette showing a comic actor. Dated to the 1st century CE. The object was found in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.
An early Christian fresco depicting a christogram that forms the abbreviation of the name of Jesus Christ. The object dates to the 4th-5th century CE. The fresco was painted on the wall of a Roman tomb discovered in the necropolis of Naissus, today’s city of Nis (southeast Serbia).
Golden beautiful Roman ring from the 3rd century CE. The object was found in one of the graves dug in the remains of Viminacium, a Roman city located near modern Kostolac (eastern Serbia).
Egyptian dice, around 2000 years old. The dice has 20 walls with Greek characters.
Famous Carthaginian Great Harbour was an artificial protected water reservoir. In ancient times this type of port was called the Greek cothon (“drinking vessel”). These types of constructions were built especially in lands controlled by Phoenicians, e.g. Sicily or Cyprus.
