Historians tell us a lot about the lives of the citizens of the Roman Empire but very little of their unfortunate slaves.
Now archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, have unearthed a 'slave room' preserved, like much of the rest of the city, under lava after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.
"This is an exceptional insight into the life and daily work of a part of the ancient population that is little known from official sources, which are almost always from the point of view of the
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