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The Colosseum had degraded almost beyond recognition, its mighty arches overgrown with weeds and vines, its central arena converted into a cemetery, where Rome’s poor and nameless dead lay in unmarked graves.
The cheers from the final games, in 525 AD, were long forgotten. For seven hundred years, the iconic stadium was los…
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