Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom used by slaves in a dig near the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

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Dickey said we know about speech variances in ancient Rome because of writings by grammarians like Pompeius. "There were a lot of Greek speakers, not everybody spoke Latin" said Dickey.