Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.
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This handout picture released on December 8, 2023 by the Pompeii archaeological park, shows the Regio IX area of the site where a prison-bakery has been discovered, announced the archaeological park on the same day. According to historians the bakery was a space where enslaved people and donkeys were confined and exploited to grind the grain needed to make bread. A cramped room with no outside view, with small windows with iron gratings for the passage of light. And in the floor carvings to coordinate the movement of the animals, forced to walk around for hours with blindfolds on. -- Photo by Handout: Pompeii Archeological Park / AFP
2023-12-09 18:34:28
Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.
Underneath a house in the ruins they found "a cramped room with no view of the outside world and with small windows high in the wall, with iron bars, to let the light in", the Archaeological Park of Pompeii announced on Friday.
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