What do when you do when you're facing a crisis?

Perhaps you might consult a friend or maybe some sort of expert.

Well, the ancient Romans had a go-to source for advice whenever they had a major problem.

And the advice they got was different.

Learn more about the Siboline books and how they gave the Romans advice during a time of crisis

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Ancient Romans had a lot of ideas and traditions which would sound really weird to us today.

For example, before they did anything really important, they would need to determine the will of the gods through interpreting omens.

How they did this was rather unusual.

One method was by taking auguries.

Auguries were the interpreting of fortunes by looking at birds.

An auger would analyze the flight of birds to determine if the fortunes for something were good

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