Chemical analysis of the bones of Christians buried in catacombs showed higher levels of nitrogen and lower levels of carbon compared with other burial sites, indicating a diet composed of around 30% freshwater fish. This may disprove an earlier hypothesis that Christians in Rome, while avoiding meats of sacrifice, ate otherwise the same food as non-Christian Romans.
Praise God and Pass the Tartar Sauce?
Submitted by Ursula on Sun, 2009-04-26 08:01
The early Christians of Rome ate a diet including much more fish than their pagan neighbors, according to a new analysis of catacomb burials.
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