Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt

An anonymous reader writes: Archaeologists have built a replica of the lift that was used to move lions and other wild animals into the Colosseum 1,500 years ago. It is estimated that a million animals may have been killed in the history of the arena. It took a year and a half for the archaeologists and engineers to build the 23ft-high timber lift, using only materials that would have been available to the ancient Romans. Gary Glassman, a director who made a documentary about the project said, "One of the reasons we are attracted to the Colosseum is because of the incredible violence that went on here. The question it poses is, how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles? The Colosseum is a snapshot in stone, a physical embodiment of the culture of Rome."

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Re:Let me answer this question:

[Anonymous Coward]

This. Republicans are so violent. So violent.

Re:Let me answer this question:

[amias]

it would be seriously remiss to not countenance the fact the we in the west are severely provoking muslim culture in a way that it has never done to us.

civilisation is something that the people do and that rulers mostly tend to undo

Re:Still in sad condition

[Demonoid-Penguin]

You're forgetting the key ingredient: SLAVES.

Luckily we don't have slaves anymore. Except at Costco. And Wallmart. And picking fruit and vegetables.

Which is why we don't have blood sports. Except at cage fights. And sports events. And bum fights.

Of course the scale is different, and so are the shoes. Smaller dog, same leg action.

Re:Let me answer this question:

[amias]

we invade their countries , we interfere in their political systems , we call them terrorists.

can't really make it any more obvious than that.