Hacker News with Generative AI: Ancient Rome

'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii (bbc.com)
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy.

Archaeology, History, Pompeii, Italy, Ancient Rome

13 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 8 comments

'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii (bbc.co.uk)
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy.

Archaeology, History, Ancient Rome, Italy

11 points by gadders 20 hours ago | 0 comments

What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them (lithub.com)
“In a way the coin is our superior. The hardness of its metal secures for it ‘eternal’ existence. A coin does not grow, it issues ready-made from the mint and should remain as it then is; it should never change.” –Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

History, Archaeology, Numismatics, Ancient Rome

3 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 0 comments

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com)
In 2019, construction workers in Carmona, Spain uncovered something remarkable underneath a very old house: an access shaft that led them to a Roman tomb which had remained perfectly sealed for two thousand years.

History, Archaeology, Ancient Rome

236 points by benbreen 2 days ago | 86 comments

'Barbarians' May Have Been Inspired by Opium When Attacking Rome, Study Suggests (haaretz.com)
The Romans thought the barbarian monsters on their borders should settle for alcohol, but the drug spoons the Germanic warriors carried into battle suggest they didn't agree

History, Ancient Rome, Drugs, Anthropology

10 points by wslh 17 days ago | 0 comments

Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II (acoup.blog)
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics.

Film Criticism, History, Ancient Rome

11 points by Tomte 35 days ago | 0 comments

Famous Roman siege thought to have lasted years ended in 'mere weeks'-New study (independent.co.uk)
The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a drawn-out battle ove several years, according to a new study.

History, Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Israel

14 points by historynops 126 days ago | 4 comments

The Badass Female Gladiators of Ancient Rome (atlasobscura.com)

History, Ancient Rome, Women, Gender

12 points by BerislavLopac 171 days ago | 2 comments

Dyēus (wikipedia.org)

Mythology, Religion, Ancient Rome

9 points by danielam 172 days ago | 6 comments

how do you 'accurately' speak English in ancient Rome? (text.npr.org)

Language, History, Linguistics, Ancient Rome

23 points by rntn 176 days ago | 96 comments

Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire (cambridge.org)