Frederic Auth

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

But there was a body lying right next to the altar with some stabbing wounds.

And this could be anything, but it certainly looks suspicious.

No chance it was Julius Caesar.

Probably not.

That would be quite the find, though.

That would be quite the find.

Yeah.

If you found Caesar, that's it.

That's your name made forever.

So, okay, so you found this body.

It has stab wounds in it.

It was laid on an altar where you typically wouldn't find a body.

Difficult really to know with so much time gone past whether or not it's a sacrifice.

But what you said really struck me, the idea that if you have to have a rule so many times saying don't sacrifice people, that obviously there must have been people who were sacrificing people.

Maybe because this was a border

And maybe culture is mixed a little bit.

Maybe this was an influence of another culture.

Hard to tell.

How do you piece that together as an archaeologist?

Well, it's kind of detective work.

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