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Originally Posted by crockett
Peo0ple have had the same brains for thousands of years. They weren't a bunch of knuckle daggers and much of Rome was highly educated. I'm pretty sure they understood about preservation of their history and culture just as we do today. Even still it's likely the biggest reason is due to the size of many of the stones and the difficultly it would have taken to reclaim that space.
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too much other stuff was taken down to think that rome had an historical society that preserved buildings. if they had been that keen on preserving old stuff why didn't rome rebuild or maintain the aqueducts which were much more useful and needed much more than a fucked up old sport arena.... because basically that's all the coliseum is, and ever was... and if they had been all that concerned why wasn't it rebuilt?
think about stuff in a practical way instead of romanticized
