About this episode

The episode discusses new photographic techniques revealing graffiti in Pompeii, including depictions of gladiator fights and lewd poetry.

New photographic techniques have shown that that walls in Pompeii were covered with graffiti, including pictures of gladiator fights, lewd poetry, and inscriptions in non-local languages like Safaitic. So sort of like New York City subways in the 1970s. Who says the past doesn’t repeat itself?

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