Archaeological findings in a Mallorca cesspit recently showed that thrushes were common fast food in Ancient Rome, alongside pigs, sheep and fish, revealing the varied diet of ordinary Romans.

The food shop in Mallorca isn’t the only example of deep-fried songbirds across Rome. As Arkeonews notes, additional finds in Pompeii and Britain indicates a widespread culture of ancient Roman ...

Life in Ancient Rome may seem glamorous through the lens of historical achievements, but beneath the grandeur was a world marked by disturbing customs, questionable hygiene, and gritty realities.

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

Giorgio Franchetti, a food historian and scholar of ancient Roman history, recovered lost recipes from these repasts, which he shares in “Dining With the Ancient Romans,” written with ...