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by tgv 1416 days ago
> The first documented soapmaker was recorded there in about 1370.

That's not ancient times. That's practically Renaissance.

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Wikipedia says [0] it's late middle ages, and only mentions the beginning of Italian reneissance. Though the word "ancient" has more specific meaning in history than is being used here, probably, referring to pre- middle ages (classical antiquity).

It's not ancient times, but also not quite reneissance yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century