Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

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Romans building a road, layer by layer (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think their solution was to have slaves do the sun baked toiling instead of doing the work themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

From what I've read in books like The Odyssey, and The Illiad, they applied olive oil afterwards for moisturization and to soothe burns, chaffs, and cracks.