Welcome to One-Minute Dig, your source for quick and fascinating historical facts, presented by Petros Koutoupis of Digging Up The Past.
You might think vending machines are a pretty modern invention, but what if I told you the ancient Greeks were already using them more than 2,000 years ago? No snacks, no soda, and definitely no chips, but the basic idea was surprisingly familiar. So what exactly was this ancient machine dispensing, and how did it actually work?
