Yuck!

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/flea-bit...heir-wake/

Flea-bitten empire: How the Romans left parasites, feces and disease in their wake

What did the Romans ever do for us? Despite all the hot baths and smart multi-seat public lavatories, the surprising answer turns out to be lice, fleas, bed bugs, bacterial infections from contamination with human feces, and 25ft-long tapeworms, a misery spread across the empire by the Roman passion for fermented fish sauce.

“It seems likely that while Roman sanitation may not have made people any healthier, they would probably have smelled better,” said Piers Mitchell, an expert on ancient diseases at Cambridge University’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Well...at least they tried.

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But hey, at least we got hot baths out of it.

[ApeNotKillApe]

And the aqueduct.

[vorlon13]

And Antinous !!!

[Jello]

But without the romans, who would fill the space left behind by the lack of total war games about them? D:

In all seriousness though, ew. Rome pls

[Cyberman]

And the wine. That's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.

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But without the romans, who would fill the space left behind by the lack of total war games about them? D:

In all seriousness though, ew. Rome pls

Nerd!

[Jello]

But without the romans, who would fill the space left behind by the lack of total war games about them? D:

In all seriousness though, ew. Rome pls

Nerd!  

You know it!

(And says you! Mrs. Computer Genius!)

[Minimalist]

It does kind of explain the failure of the historical life expectancy graph to move upwards until recently.



If only the Romans would have invented the microscope.  Or a Greek. They could then enslave the Greek and get the microscope that way.

[Minimalist]

I'm surprised that C/L hasn't checked in on this one yet.  Right up her alley.