Many of the things that we still use today are taken for granted, and we no longer ask ourselves, “Hey, how did this come about?” we can still be grateful to this day.
Books
Although it was written before Rome, the books we know today, the hardbound ones, were created right there. They were known as the codex, which referred to the hard covers that protect the contents inside. Although such books were created already in the 1st century, they came into wider use relatively slowly, and became the standard only in the 4th century.
Apartments
Many apartments of famous Europeans are still visited today as tourist attractions, so people like to visit places where famous people lived who did not even engage in similar jobs, for which Coco Chanel and Sigmund Freud are good examples. Well, the concept of apartments originated in ancient Rome, as a result of population growth and large-scale urbanization.
Over time, the architects there began to build higher and higher buildings in which different families lived in different housing units. And that’s how the Romans invented apartments!
Newspaper
Well, of course, it’s not a newspaper as we know it today, it didn’t look anything like that, and the pictures were clearly not included. Nevertheless, the Romans were constantly informed about events in the empire, and ordinary newspapers were carved in stone and placed in frequent places.
Of course, it should be taken into account that considering the level of literacy, the majority of citizens still had no idea what they were writing. However, it remains recorded that the first newspaper was published in 59 BC, during the reign of Caesar.
The post office
Given the size of the Empire, which spanned three continents, it was necessary to somehow devise and find a way to communicate and transmit messages as efficiently as possible to the most remote parts of the country.
The delivery of state and private letters and messages was the responsibility of the Cursus Publicus courier service, which was founded by Emperor Augustus and which functioned as the first postal service in the world.
Dental implants
Of course, you would laugh at them today, but 100 years before Christ, the Roman writer Celsus created a guide to oral medicine, in which he stated how to treat tooth loss, as well as toothache.
Archaeologists’ discovery from 1998 also tells how they practiced “dentistry” in Rome. Namely, then in France they found the remains of people from the 1st or 2nd century, who had an iron implant, shaped exactly like a lost tooth.
Air conditioning
Well, it wasn’t about air conditioning as we know it today, but the Romans already had an ingenious way to cool down.
Namely, the famous aqueducts were used not only for the delivery of drinking water, but also for cooling the homes of wealthy Romans. Namely, the water would pass through pipes in the walls and floors of Roman houses and thus cool the homes.
Ham
Although the first evidence suggests that ham was invented by the Chinese, it was the Romans who discovered it and introduced it into the lives of Europeans. The reasons for this were, first of all, the need to find food that could stand for days in various conditions, and the meat was salted and dried.
Little by little, that’s how we got to ham, a product that we all happily consume today in various forms.
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