Romans loved and would daily carry strange little gadgets all around. Gadgets that were basically multitools. Commonly integrated tools would be things they could use for their trade, but then they'd also have a spoon attachment for when it was lunch time, for example.
They actually dug up some Scythian artifacts while digging trenches in Ukraine, and had to move the planned trench section so the site can be properly excavated post-war. Let me see if I can find it.
My memory was a bit off - Scythian artifacts were looted in a separate incident by Russian forces. Ukrainians accidentally dug up Greek or Roman amphorae, not Scythian works.
It’s sad to think about the history that’s being destroyed. Ukrainian, Roman, Greek, some of it undiscovered and now never to be seen. Such a pointless waste of life, but also of beauty and history. At least some was found. It must be a surreal moment to unearth a historical artefact in a warzone
I’m from a 2000+ years old city that has a shit ton of Roman ruins buried in the ground to the point that every new development is super anxious about finding any and getting delayed by archeologists. What gets me is that it feels like 2k years isn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things but clearly it’s more than long enough to trap shit under meters of soil.
Well, no modern anesthesia. If you were lucky, you'd get powdered opium dissolved in wine. Less lucky, and you'd get some small dose of nightshade dissolved in wine. Unpleasant, but at least you'd be unconscious, and (probably) wake up again, eventually.
Of course, if you were being operated on in emergency circumstances, or as some poor farmer in the middle of nowhere getting a visit from a city doctor, you might very well end up with nothing at all.
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