Greetings,
Quote:Why preserve when you can restore ? I can only conclude that they're just being miserly :evil:
Sometimes it is nice to be able to look and know that something has nothing modern added, like Pompeii.
Where you can feel the past is very close and walk out of the building into a street almost seeing the original citizens about their daily life..
There is something ancient embedded in the stones and bricks that you will not find in modern replications.
Restorations that are totally original material are the best way, but not so easy as the sites have generally been plundered to use the stone, etc elsewhere.
I really like the idea of the Amphitheatre in Jerash being used for chariot racing and Gladiatorial games along with Legio VI Ferrata patrolling the streets, it must be an exhilarating experience...
[url:30ip13qe]http://www.jerashchariots.com/[/url] and from what I have seen of the town, streets still paved with original stones, rutted with chariot wheels, it is somewhere I would love to visit one day, and to visit the Amphitheatre, of course...
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I guess holding rock concerts is the modern equivalent of the entertainment that would have been held in some amphitheatres....!
regards
Arthes