Overwhelming Proof That The Romans Were Addicted To Facebook

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Overwhelming Proof That The Romans Were Addicted To Facebook

Overwhelming Proof That The Romans Were Addicted To Facebook While strolling through the Getty Villa in Malibu—a museum dedicated to the study the cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria—Adam Pash discovered something curious: Evidence that even the Romans couldn't resist Facebook.

Either that, or he discovered evidence that we can't help but imagine familiar technologies in the most ancient of art pieces. [Adam Pash]

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