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with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Giraffe necks, elephant trunks, flamingo tongues... Tales of the culinary extravagances of the Romans have long fed the collective imagination. Pure invention? While […]

De l'Antiquité à nos jours, les lentilles ont été associées à la prospérité. En Italie, elles font encore partie des traditions de Nouvel An.

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Nunc est bibendum: Isn't it anachronistic to talk about dietetics in Roman times? Doesn't your analysis give in to fashion? Dimitri Tilloi d'Ambrosi: […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Two, then three, then four: the fork doesn't lose its teeth over time like humans do. Contrary to popular belief, the fork is […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) It's an object almost as mysterious as the famous Roman dodecahedron[1]... A handle about a cubit long, with five or seven claws at […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) We have our ‘Rock Paper Scissors’, the Romans had their digitis micare[1], iterally ‘waving your fingers around’. The principle is very simple: two […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Ancient job advertisement: "prestigious Peloponnesian city seeks young single men under 30 to organise a festival for four years in a row, during […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Beware if you rub yourself against it: it can cause severe skin burns. The rue we're talking about here is a plant with […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) It's common knowledge that the Romans cut their wine with water, either hot or cold, depending on the occasion. Not to do so […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) From the top of these four jugs, almost 2,000 years look down on us. The fresco was discovered in a street in Herculaneum […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) A skilful military strategist, a sensible statesman, loved by his soldiers and the people. And generous. Emperor Trajan was highly praised, both by […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) The news has caused quite a stir. Not only in archaeological circles, but also beyond: the recent discovery of a portion of the […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) You don't play with food. But in the Greek world, around the 5th century BC, this modern rule of etiquette did not apply. […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) The word has met with great success. First among a handful of archaeologists and historians, then in the media and in the words […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) From present-day Spain to Mesopotamia, the same Greek words can be found, generally engraved on inexpensive precious stones (agate, onyx or sardonyx). The […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Votre navigateur ne prend pas en charge la balise vidéo. The most basic method of creating pleasant scents was to burn branches, gums, […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) In the West, cheese is a must. Switzerland, France and Italy, for example, have several hundred varieties. The importance of this food has […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Roosters are not usually cooked. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, apart from its reproductive function, the animal is useless. It is […]

with Deepl (please notify us of errors) Thirsty? How about a little vinegar with water? Once you've got past the pungent smell and the sourness of the first sip, you […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) Upon the mosaic floor, one can discern a fish, of which only the head and bones remain, a half-eaten bunch of grapes, crustacean […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) Its name might sound like a punk band: garum. But in reality, it's quite different, even if its ingredients might suggest a "no […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) A question for sharp minds: who invented the "Swiss Army knife"? Counterintuitively, the answer is not in the question, and Swiss expertise in […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) Not to be confused with the grape juice from our supermarkets. Living in a wine-producing region, one sometimes has the opportunity to taste, […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) - Article en français Heatwaves are sweeping across Europe. Interestingly, the ancient Romans too grappled with stifling summers. They referred to this sweltering […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) The reproduced stone depicted here, dated from the late 1st century AD and found in Aesernia, 170 km southeast of Rome, was evidently […]

with ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) Our winemaking tradition often evokes its Greco-Roman heritage. However, the cultivation of vines and the tradition of wine extend far beyond this geographical […]

with DeepL & ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) Among the five hundred Roman recipes that have miraculously come down to us thanks to the uninterrupted copying of Apicius' cookery […]

with DeepL & ChatGPT (please notify us of errors) On this day in Rome, there were reports of naked men running unrestrained through the streets, wielding goat thongs to whip […]

The SATOR magic square is an ancient hit. For 2000 years its success has not waned. It unleashes passions and excites the imagination.

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) At the end of the third century AD, the Roman Empire was a collection of peoples with multiple traditions that tended to break […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) The houses and streets witness a joyous outburst: the crowd goes out to form festive processions, the servants are served by their master, […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) I would really like to know if you think that ghosts exist, that they have a form of their own and some kind […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) When Alexander the Great's soldiers invaded the territory stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, around 331 BC, they discovered a […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) A Roman legionary, on a day when the army was on the move, could consume more than 4000 calories, just by walking, carrying […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) The idea of combining the harshness of wine with the sweetness of honey could only come from a god. In this case, Aristaeus, […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) When you hear the word vomitorium, what comes to mind? A room adjacent to the dining room where the satiated Romans could evacuate […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) The Nunc est bibendum association was born from the desire to create a unique cultural place in Geneva that would offer the public […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) The Romans too felt the heat. Indeed, climatologists have determined, through the study of pollen, glaciers, sediments, and other traces, that the period […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) You have probably come across it without knowing or recognising it: the great mallow (malva sylvestris1) thrives in the countryside as well as […]

with DeepL (please notify us of errors) Ab ovo usque ad mala1. A good and copious Roman meal had to honour this expression: 'from the egg to the apple'. Usually […]