Monday, July 30, 2012

First Pisa, now Rome's Colosseum - it's leaning

news.yahoo.com  via Behind The Black

Professor Giorgio Monti, from La Sapienza's construction technology department, warned there may be a crack in the base below the amphitheatre.

"The slab of concrete on which the Colosseum rests, which is like a 13-metre (yard)-thick oval doughnut, may have a fracture inside it," he told the newspaper.

Thirteen meters thick?  Man that is impressive.  They built this 2000 years ago, for heavens sake.

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