Legend has it that the first soap was accidentally produced on Mt. Sopa, a site of animal sacrifice. As the goat meat burned, fat dripped down through the fire, bonding to lye leaching out of the ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

In ancient Rome, a fullonica, sometimes referred to as ... the city said. Because soap was not yet invented, ancient Romans used human and animal urine as laundry detergent, according to Pompeii ...