Archaeologists in Pompeii found a "prison bakery" where slaves worked
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Archaeologists have discovered a "prison bakery" in Pompeii, where slaves and donkeys were forced to grind grain. The excavations revealed a house divided into parts with barred windows and engravings to control the movement of animals. The presence of iron bars and skeletal remains emphasizes the cruelty of ancient slavery.
Archaeologists have unearthed a "prison bakery" in the ancient city of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 AD. AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This is reported by Le Figaro, writes UNN.
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These excavations, carried out in the house, revealed "a narrow room with no appearance, equipped with small windows with iron bars to let in light", a site located in the south of Naples.
Archaeologists concluded that it was "a prison bakery where slaves and and donkeys, which were used to grind the grain needed for for the production of bread". The study also revealed the presence of "engravings on the ground to coordinate the movement of animals forced to move blindfolded for hours."
The house was divided into a residential part, decorated with frescoes, and a bakery, where the enslaved were forced to grind the grain needed to make bread.
Three skeletons have already been found in one of the bakery rooms in recent months, confirming that the house was inhabited.
You have to imagine these people with a servile status, whose owner saw fit to restrict their freedom of movement. This is the most shocking aspect of ancient slavery, devoid of trust and reduced to brutal violence. This impression is confirmed by the closing of several windows with iron bars,
Volcanic ash, erupted by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago, settled on most of the houses in Pompeii, allowing them to be almost completely preserved, as well as many of the bodies of the 3 000 people who died.
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