12-20-2008, 08:40 AM
From today's UK Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 369754.ece
Richard Owen in Rome
They came. They saw. They slaughtered. And now, almost 2,000 years after fighters and wild animals last entertained the rabble, gladiators are set to return to the Colosseum.
Umberto Broccoli, the head of archaeology at Rome city council, said it was time that the five million people who visited the Colosseum annually saw the kind of shows originally staged there. They should also experience “the sights, sounds and smellsâ€
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 369754.ece
Richard Owen in Rome
They came. They saw. They slaughtered. And now, almost 2,000 years after fighters and wild animals last entertained the rabble, gladiators are set to return to the Colosseum.
Umberto Broccoli, the head of archaeology at Rome city council, said it was time that the five million people who visited the Colosseum annually saw the kind of shows originally staged there. They should also experience “the sights, sounds and smellsâ€