Smashing success: Rome's hill of 53 million jars

Monte Testaccio is a hill in Rome that is actually a centuries-old amphorae dump. There is an amazing history to both the hill and the wealth of information it hides.
Evidently, it was cheaper to just smash amphorae, the clay jugs in which olive oil and other trade fluids of the Roman Empire were stored. — Read the rest
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