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They really had dumbbells back then? Something about that seems incredibly modern.
Fascinating, isn't it? There are all sorts of strange little echoes of modernity in Ancient Rome. You might get a ticket with your seat number on it to see a show, or hear the clerk ask if you want the book you're getting gift wrapped, or the local bureaucrat tell you to come back when you have your form signed in triplicate, or hear your kids complain about the homework their teacher gave them.
Yet their teacher is a slave, the signatures you need are pressed in wax by signet rings, the book has to be copied by hand before the clerk can sell you it, and the ticket is to literal bloodsport.
I love this! My first thought though was, I feel like we still have some style of bloodsports. I wonder if those will ever fully become out of style.
Unless it has electronic components in it, you can assume it has existed in some form since ancient civilizations.
Baghdad battery time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
I mean, you would be right. Rome was ~2000-3000 years ago, which is an extremely narrow time frame in evolutionary history.