The Genius Construction Of Ancient Rome's Colosseum | Colosseum | Timeline

I've been to the Colosseum twice but the Arch of Constantine in its shadow, mesmerizes me more, for whatever reason. Truly breathtaking

I'm glad Pope Benedict XIV dedicated the Colosseum to all the Christian martyrs. The Colosseum reopened on June 28th, 2021, after the restoration was completed. New areas were opened to the public for the first time in centuries.

i saw an interesting documentary where they had a guy that was a specialist in designing buildings that could evacuate as rapidly as possible His challenge was to re design the coliseum for this purpose he made a new design and then they ran the original building and his through a computer program designed to run a test on this To his utter Suprise he lost and the original designed coliseum won It was able to evacuate everyone 6 minutes faster than his modern design Just goes to show....

First time I saw this amazing building was on the first night in Rome, just getting dark it was lit up and made my hair stand on end, just amazing. In fact I was 4 days and the whole city was mind blowing.

Concrete has a roughly 100 year lifespan…the colosseum has stood for 2000 years!

Preserving Italy's brilliant history through physical preservation, and also through cultural preservation with the election of their most recent prime minister! Love it!

Simply amazing

In my hotel in in 1976 my room and window was very close to the Colosseum and I could see it's marvels every day I woke up or went sleep. I did purvey and walk into it when I could. Of course, I didn't like the ancient cruelty and barbarism that happened there but an interesting piece of work to make it back then.

To many of the viewing public, while 5he architectural aspect if the construction of the building, is interesting, there can also be interest in the theatrical operations. It has been recorded that when Titus inaugurated the Colosseum, the mornings has sea battles with prisoners on boats that would be sunk by the Roman Navy, and a recreation of the Greek myth of Icarus flying over the stadia only to fall to his death. And with animal hunts and gladiators in the afternoon. While some of this has been shown, ( the water inlets and drains along with the boat storage), and that a replica of one of the elevators was installed, there is still a matter of the amount of changeover work required to construct the wood and sand surface over the area of the water height. And how the water was kept from flooding animal enclosures which would need to be above the water. An example of such is still occurring at NYC’s Madison Square garden. Where it can be possible to have both Basketball and Ice Hockey on the same day if required. The Colosseum events would be much harder to accomplish, even with the use of hundreds of stagehands/ slaves. It is recorded that the water events were discontinued, I would suspect due to the changeover difficulties.

Yes sir, Just in time for sunday funday. a new good video, new to me anyways.

I’m so intrigued with the woman who knows so much and made a joke about her gray hair. Fascinating

I’m sure people in the streets could hear the spectators cheering as slaughtering was taking place.

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It would be nice to know when this was actually produced so we had a better idea of when in time these were made so you could have an idea of if some information is new or old

I've seen it many times,,super awesome

I think they should fully restore it, but keep it real as possible. They could have shows reenacting what actually happened giving everyone a look into history. They would make a killing over just leaving it as is.

I hope he's able to do something about the acid rain which is slowly melting all of the ancient monuments there and in Greece

Thank you for this video

The Flavian Amphitheater. AKA The Coliseum is the mother of all arenas. 🏟️

Great video