Interesting Ancient Rome facts

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In ancient Rome Women used to dye hair with the goats fat and ashes of beech wood. The most colours fashionable Blond and Red.
Trajan’s Column, that is 128 feet height, has the same as height as the 9 story building. Frisian sculpture that rotates the column is about 655 feet long; about the length of two football fields that describes over 2500 men.
The Theatre of “Circus Maximus” in Rome has the ability to hold up to 250, 000 audience. Whereas, The Yankee Stadium in New York could hold only about 60, 000 audience.
Rather than using Soap, Romans used oil that is used to rub into their skin, and then scrape off with a metal instrument that is known as strigil.
The Roman Empire spanned about 2.5 million sq. miles when it reached to its regional apex/top in 116 AD.
Lead was used as a preservative and sweetener agent.
The Official Roman citizen’s costume was the Toga, which was created with a Semi-circular piece of white woollen fabric, and was approximately 18H feet in diameter.
Like today’s athletes, many gladiators used to select colourful surnames to boost publicity. A gladiator known as Antaios is stored in a monument that means the name of a giant according to Greek mythology.
The drill or trepan, which was used to create the art, by the ancient sculptors, was additionally used as a surgical instrument to drill holes in the skull. This process which is also known as trepanning was thought to help and treat the brain disorders, headaches, set the evil spirits free and to treat the insanity.
Roman charioteer was the most popular sport that was associated with the racing clubs or teams. The most renowned factions were the Greens, Reds, Whites and Blues.
Romans used an advanced system for heating in their bathrooms which was known as ‘hypocaust’ for heating the caldarium (hot plunge bath) and tepidarium (warm bathroom) and also the walls and floors of their complex.
The board games like Checkers, Tic-Tac-Toe and Chess were played by Romans.
Ancient Roman had many houses with Flushes in the toilets and indoor plumbing.
The caduceus is a stick with wings and is circled by the two snakes. A caduceus is linked to Mercury, the messenger of the gods. A caduceus came to be associated with postal workers and journalists. The caduceus of Mercury is usually misjudged with the rod of Asclepius that is the short staff entwined by two serpents that represents the symbol of medicine.