Off the wires today:
The Mayor of Rome is examining a controversial plan that could see a wall that has been missing from the Colosseum since shortly after it was built nearly 2000 years ago, finally filled in.
Read the rest of “The Fall and Rise of Ancient Rome” and a related article: “Rome-born Architect Dreams of Completing Colosseum” from earlier this week.
It’s an interesting and old controversy: How much should ancient ruins be tampered with, even in the name of reconstruction? It never occurred to me, though, that someone would want to “fill in” the rest of the Colosseum!