For three years now I've run the fact that maybe I should have studied anthropology on my profile. Yet this is the first I have linked to or quoted an article about archeology. Reading this Smithsonian article today was pure pleasure for I learned new things about the spectacles staged at the Roman Colosseum that I never knew. (Link to the full article above.)
Did you know that pastries and wine were thrown out to the spectators? That the archaeologists have realized that the strange architecture of the place provided for lifts for animals to be released into the coliseum from their cages so that the fighter didn't know how many animals or if an Elephant or Lion might appear? That the center of the coliseum was once flooded to float boats so people could watch mock sea battles? And that there is no proof that Christians were specifically killed for their faith?
