WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COLOSSEUM AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
We know about the blood-and-gore entertainment, and we know that the Colosseum ruins still stand, attracting around seven million visitors a year. That leaves the gladiator-eating lion’s share of two millennia in between.
GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL Pope Sixtus V hoped to turn the Colosseum into a wool factory, but the plan was abandoned after his death in 1590
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