If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman fresco, Pompeii. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be ...