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What did villages in the Roman Empire look like? Did peasants live in huts or in houses? If they had houses, what did they look like? Many European villages today have houses from the medieval era - did Roman villages have sturdy houses that lasted into the Medieval era?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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