If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you'd likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce.

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They described the combined Medo-Babylonian sack of Nineveh at the beginning of the period in 612; they described the Medo-Persian advance on Babylon in 539 at the end.

The top layer dates back to the Sasanian period, which stretched from 224 to 651 A.D. during the reign of the Sasanian Empire—one of the last pre-Islamic empires of Iran.