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There's an implied "and" in that comma. OP titled it like a newspaper headline.

Latin was the common language for the western half of the Roman Empire. But Greek was the common language for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, including Judea. Most educated Romans were fluent in Greek as well as Latin.

Okay so, wait, according to this snippet, it was actually thought of that the above mentioned fruits and oils were the snacks, not the animal bones as the title sort of leads to be believed.

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Not going to lie, on first read I thought they were snacking on bones.

We still do that, just with fewer animals now

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The consensus (not always the same as the truth) is that coins were first minted as a guarantee of purity/honest weight of the precious metals. Of course the people doing this put their logo on the product.

There is some evidence that gold coins were ceasing to be currency and becoming a method of hoarding gold in the latter half of the 3rd century.

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Or, maybe an uprising that failed?

Assuming that they're fake because we don't know who Sponsian was is silly. If you're gonna counterfeit a bunch of ancient gold coins, why would you make up an emperor who never existed?

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Well, he was most likely a farmer murdered for not being protestant.

The coins themselves could be a "bid" to gain power. Local powers would mint coins in an effort to produce power. More scholarly work needs doing methinks.

The Nazis dumped lots of ammunition in various different lakes and harbours near the big cities after WW2. There was also an ammunitions factory near this lake which used to dump various ammunitions and other waste in the lake if i recall correctly from the Norwegian article on this.

Wait a minute, they just dumped surplus ammo in a lake? And someone thought that was okay??

Yes, excellent museum. I found the most fascinating thing about the ships was they are constructed in the opposite way to almost any later ship. Instead of a solid frame with a hull fitted to the outside, they are a very strong but flexible hull, with the frame structure loosely hung inside on ropes.

November 24, 2022.

>A year-long study of the drainage system under the Colosseum has unearthed fragments of the bones of bears and big cats that were probably used to fight or as prey in hunting games in the ancient Roman arena, archaeologists said on Thursday.

>Other discoveries include more than 50 bronze coins from the late Roman period as well as a silver coin from around 170-171 AD to commemorate 10 years of rule of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, they added in a statement.

>Seeds from fruits such as figs, grapes and melons as well as traces of olives and nuts — thought to indicate what spectators snacked on during shows — were also recovered from the 2,000-year-old stone amphitheatre.

>The study, which began in January, involved the clearance of around 70 metres of drains and sewers under the Colosseum and is seen as shedding light on its later years before it fell into disuse around 523 AD.

Reuters via The Cyprus Mail

Can you imagine Musk or Bezos minting their own coins and valuing them based on the current price if the metal? That seems like something that would get those guys off.