At the Pollentia site, archaeologists also found the remains of pigs, sheep, goat, fish and shellfish – showing how varied ...

Thrushes were not just a luxury food item in ancient Roman times, but consumed as street food, according to a garbage dump in ...

A study of animal remains from an ancient trash pit in Mallorca suggests thrushes were once a staple of Roman street food ...

For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...

The research illuminates part of the Roman diet and challenges historical assumptions about thrush consumption.

The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC) reports that thrush bones discarded in a Roman cesspit at ...

Historical sources (including the Roman gourmand Apicius and the philosopher Plutarch) describe thrushes as delicacies ...

Thrushes were everyday street food in Roman Era, excavation reveals. (photo credit: Jesus Cobaleda. Via Shutterstock) By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 15, 2025 15:55.

Ruins of the roman city of Pollentia in Mallorca. Credit: Olaf Tausch / Wikimedia Commons Until now, Roman historical sources such as Apicius’ recipe books or Pliny the Elder’s texts spoke of thrushes ...

A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet ...

Birds were prominent figures in ancient Rome. Certain owls and eagles were considered powerful divinatory omens, while ...