Frederic Auth

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · Extra: Was there human sacrifice in ancient Rome? · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

of course also sacrifices of coins someone's throwing like the the trevi fountain in rome someone is throwing a coin into um into one of those pits we also see ceramic round discs resembling coins thrown also into those pits they they resemble coins in in a way except they not being of precious metal and we think they they used items like this to to give something to the god maybe they

haven't got the means to give actual coin, so they're using pottery instead.

Okay, you mentioned that there weren't any humans sacrificed.

Talk to me about that, because it seems like of all the civilizations, the Romans were pretty, that was a pretty taboo thing to do, was it?

Yes, so human sacrifice was, well, essentially a big no-no in Roman culture.

They viewed it as barbaric, so you are not allowed to do human sacrifice.

How do we know that?

Was that written down somewhere?

Yeah, there are a lot of sources, and this is quite interesting.

So it's part of ancient literature so many times you have to think why it's mentioned so often.

Yeah.

So there must be a reason.

And maybe we do have some signs of human sacrifice.

It's too early to be definitive about it.

Oh, neither?

Yeah, there's one special feature we are kind of curious about and thinking about.

Maybe we do have some signs of some sort of human sacrifice here.

as well, but this is very early to be definitive about.

But there is a burial, which is very unusual, because Romans were very strict about where to put the dead.

Graveyards outside the town.

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