When you look down at the floor of a McDonald’s restaurant, you may expect to see discarded napkins and straws along with the occasional need for a cleanup in Aisle 5. But visitors to the Mickey D’s in the town of Frattocchie, Italy, just south of Rome, see something unexpected when they look down.
The floor of the restaurant is made of clear glass, and underneath it is a well-preserved ancient Roman road. But that isn’t all they see. They also “gaze down at the 2000 year old skeletons of actual humans who apparently were cast aside into the road’s culvert,” according to a blog titled The Archaeologist.
The author speculates that the remains might be those of “slaves who died and were tossed away as garbage” or perhaps “soldiers who succumbed to a long and brutal march, or simply died of eating the wrong thing at the wrong time.”
Although the sight of skeletons is not what many people prefer to look at while they’re eating, the road has been made into a permanent attraction for customers. Visitors so inclined can walk on the ancient pavement under the glass, led by tour guides.
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