What's interesting about this story is not so much how the Romans treated graves and trash, but how preconceptions of propriety amongst early archaeologists led to mistaken interpretations of what it all meant. #ddtb
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The bizarre story of where ancient Pompeii put its trash
As far as the people of ancient Pompeii were concerned, dead bodies and trash were basically the same thing, at least in terms of where they ended up.
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