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Colosseum Brickworks Discovered


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A local brickworks north of the Italian capital provided material used in some of Ancient Rome's most famous monuments, new excavations suggest .

 

Tiziano Gasperoni, an archaeologist at Tuscia University near Viterbo, has uncovered the remains of a Roman site that appears to have produced bricks for the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Trajan Markets and Hadrian's mausoleum .

 

full article at Physorg.com

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