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Rome's ancient Colosseum, the famous arena where gladiators and wild animals once clashed in violent combat, will soon have a new retractable floor built over its center.
"You will be able to walk on it and go to the center of the Colosseum, seeing it in the same way as visitors used to up to the end of the 19th century," the Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said at a press conference on Sunday (May 2), Reuters reported. Archaeologists removed the last arena floor in the early 19th century, in order to excavate and restore the network of secret tunnels below, and the floor was never fully replaced, The Guardian reported.
The Ministry of Culture just granted a $22.2 million (18.5 million euro) contract to the Italian engineering firm Milan Ingegneria to design the new floor, and announced that the project should be completed by 2023. The 32,300-square-foot (3,000 square meters) floor will be made of hundreds of wooden slats that can be rotated to let light and air into the chambers below, BBC News reported
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But, I really want to jump up and down and say........don't touch it. Don't touch anything. You're thinking about touching it. Don't breathe on it. Don't come near it. Not that anyone would listen especially because it slices, it dices and it is going to have a ventilation system that will control the humidity in the hypogeum.
"You will be able to walk on it and go to the center of the Colosseum, seeing it in the same way as visitors used to up to the end of the 19th century," the Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said at a press conference on Sunday (May 2), Reuters reported. Archaeologists removed the last arena floor in the early 19th century, in order to excavate and restore the network of secret tunnels below, and the floor was never fully replaced, The Guardian reported.
The Ministry of Culture just granted a $22.2 million (18.5 million euro) contract to the Italian engineering firm Milan Ingegneria to design the new floor, and announced that the project should be completed by 2023. The 32,300-square-foot (3,000 square meters) floor will be made of hundreds of wooden slats that can be rotated to let light and air into the chambers below, BBC News reported
Rome's Colosseum, site of violent gladiator battles, to get new high-tech floor
Rome's ancient Colosseum, the famous arena where gladiators and wild animals once clashed in violent combat, will soon have a new retractable floor built over its center.
www.livescience.com
But, I really want to jump up and down and say........don't touch it. Don't touch anything. You're thinking about touching it. Don't breathe on it. Don't come near it. Not that anyone would listen especially because it slices, it dices and it is going to have a ventilation system that will control the humidity in the hypogeum.
