What caused a clog in this 2,000-year-old Roman bathhouse? A treasure trove of gemstones, that’s what.
Archaeologists recently uncovered a stockpile of 2,000-year-old glittering gemstones clogging the drain of a Roman bathhouse near Hadrian's Wall in Carlisle, England.
"It's incredible," Frank Giecco , the archaeologist who led the excavation, told The Guardian."It's caught everyone's imagination. They were just falling out of people's rings who were using the baths. They were set with a vegetable glue and, in the hot and sweaty bathhouse, they fell out of the ring settings."
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