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Imperial Roman barracks diagram (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations

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[–] PugJesus 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, some suggest that Roman contubernia had 10 men in them (8 legionaries, 2 assistants), and that tents and barracks having 8 sleeping spaces is because 2 men would be rotated on night-time guard duty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

wow that's cool! I was actually just joking but it's cool that there was something like that going on!