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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.
Preserved amphora neck – bottomless – through which was made an offering directly to the grave. This is an extremely rare find in Gaul. The building was located in a cemetery in Narbonne (southern France). Dated to 1st – 2nd century CE.
Roman glassware found in the grave of a rich man in Himlingøje in present-day Denmark. Dated to 2nd – 3rd century CE.
Roman hair net, dated to the 1st century CE. It is made of braided golden wires.
Roman gold bracelets, found in a tomb near the remains of the Roman city of Viminacium, near Kostolac, in eastern Serbia. Dated to the 3rd century CE; they are made of thin gold sheet filled with resin. Currently, the objects are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Austria).
Roman fresco depicting a basket of figs. The object was discovered in the villa of Poppei Sabina in Oplontis – a city that was destroyed – along with, among others Pompeii and Herculaneum – by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire at a steady, steady pace. At the beginning of the 2nd century CE, even 1% of Christians could not be spoken yet; one hundred years later, this number increased to 5%, so that in the middle of the third century CE amount to 20% of the total population of the Empire.
