Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit English Subtitles

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This is the skull of a Roman.

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When we say "Romans", we tend to
think of men from Italy

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dressed up in togas, orating in
the Forum, trampling over

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the fields in arm our, building
bridges and probably overeating.

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This Roman lived in York.

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And this Roman was a woman.

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All we know about her comes from her
bones and what was found with them.

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She can't have been more than about
20 when she died

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and she must have been pretty