Ancient Roman staples include bread and wine, however, Romans also ate foods from other cultures. The lower classes, however, did not have such luxurious dinners. The poor might only eat a simple meal of vegetables and porridge. The government of Rome provided free or cheap grain for the ...
Once the flour was made, the bread would be made by mixing dough and kneading it with both hands or even the feet in large dough-kneading containers. To add some flavor, additives such as yeast, salt, spices, milk, and sometimes eggs were added just before the bread was cut into baking...
On this Sicily travel experience, you'll discover an Italian island with more than 3,000 years of history. Once home to a Greek colony, a Roman province, an Arab emirate, a Norman kingdom, and more, traces of ancient conquerors can still be found in Sicily’s well-preserved ruins, eleg...
The data used in this study come from 13 archaeological sites, broadly speaking, 12 of which are urban or village sites and have been associated with agropastoral communities. One additional site, LVD-HA-K7 (in the Bukhara Oasis), is a burial mound and was linked to a different population ...
With around 50 artefacts on display, including loans from the Louvre, ‘Drinking with the Gods’ centres on the role of wine in Graeco-Roman culture, with a large part dedicated to Dionysus, the god who gave wine to humans and – perhaps more importantly – taught us to make it ourselves...
Breakfast and Lunch Roman Style For those who could afford it, breakfast (jentaculum), eaten very early, would consist of salted bread, milk, orwine, and perhaps dried fruit, eggs, or cheese. It was not always eaten. The Roman lunch (cibus meridianusorprandium), a quick meal eaten arou...
Welcome to the final post in The World of An Altar of Indignities, the blog series in which we’ve explored some of the research that went into our latest dramatic and romantic comedy set in the Roman Empire. If you missed Part X on the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, you can read that by...
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians w…
Fishing for indirect compliments, she underplays her management skills and hides her financial nest eggs with the complicity of her maid. Controlling her man's desire for other people's beautiful eyes - not so successful, although arrested at the stage of desire not execution. Xifeng also ...
Helen is among the mythical characters fathered by Zeus. In the form of a swan, Zeus either seduced or assaulted Helen’s mother Leda. On the same night, Leda slept with her husband Tyndareus and as a result gave birth to four children, who hatched from two eggs. ...