What Happened To The Missing Half of The Colosseum?

#colosseum #architecture #history #rome #ancientrome
In this episode, we explore the history of the Colosseum in Rome and what happened to the missing half of this iconic structure. From devastating fires to repurposing as a cemetery and castle, learn about the challenges this ancient amphitheater faced over the centuries. Join us as we uncover the fascinating story behind one of the world's most famous landmarks.
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[@HistoryUnleashedOfficial]

Learn more about Ancient Rome: amzn.to/3P1e3We

[@EleazarVides]

Great short, but what’s the music played during this?

[@craftpaint1644]

Wasn't it the largest stadium until the 1970s? Or 60s? Would have been nice to mention that.

[@RPRIMICI]

A lot of the stone was repurposed to build St Peters basilica and other monuments. I'm just glad the full height can still be seen and appreciated.

[@danielm7435]

Just went to the colosseum today

[@Wale_Akinloye]

​@@danielm7435You lucky bastard. I'm jealous.

[@sweetlemonade123]

I went earlier this week. Underground tour and all. Awesome. @@Wale_Akinloye

[@nathansullivan4433]

@@Wale_Akinloye I went there in 2017, it was absolutely worth your time and money, much more so than the Vatican in my personal opinion

[@bloodygekkon]

f to religions

[@cb2291]

In other words, Italy became ghetto after Rome fell

[@OTBDBOY]

Yup right after the church took over 😂

[@opentoperspectives6420]

You let the mongols in and you poison ur own culture. Almost what’s happening now …

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

Ah yes, the classic chapel and sacred cemetary you typically find as the first sign that you're in a ghetto

[@OkPe-ww5rs]

​@@OTBDBOYDoubt it was the church

[@shanejones578]

You think the Roman’s were good? They were fuckin maniacal

[@KLHistoryAI]

Such rich history 😮

[@JayakanthS]

Now Musk and Mark are going to have a fight there.

[@historybishop]

Good idea 😅

[@mynamemylastname7179]

I vote to add a lion🦁 or a tiger🐅to that fight

[@cloud67899]

I got money on Mark...he actually surfs n is active unlike fatty fat Elon lol

[@triniscout]

The opening shot and sentence really got me, great short.

[@wgwg8536]

I’m probably one in million but I’d like them to restore it to its full glory like it was during the Roman Empire.

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

It's already flooded with tourists year round, I don't think many people see a need for that. Wait 10 years and you can go there in VR

[@shanejones578]

I think it’s more beautiful as is. But it needs to be preserved as is, not just left to crumble…

[@leviuzumaki3903]

Probably wouldn’t be the same the issue is that much of the way stone was made back then is different than it’s made today. Not only that but it probably just wouldn’t work or wouldn’t be the same I think that’s part of the reason why they haven’t done it, not to mention just how big of a project it would be along with how many problems would come from it.

[@duaneweaver537]

The Collesseum was built between the years 70 and 72. That is not more than 2,000 years old!

[@reivang7196]

Wow you really tripping off a few years?

[@yahyedhaqane5867]

@@reivang7196 but he is right

[@______638]

>implying

[@rinni8157]

​@@yahyedhaqane5867 brah is still 1950 year..

[@yahyedhaqane5867]

@@rinni8157 but is 1950 2000?

[@yammt3148]

Breaks my heart how all the original Capitoline Temples are gone, mostly torn down to build shit buildings after. 😢

[@kathylware3699]

Thanks For Sharing This INTEL ❗

[@KonVomshak]

Intresting !

[@commonwealthofman52]

So basically the colloseum became diamond city after the fall of rome

[@justinseong376]

When u run out of blocks in Minecraft.. : looks to friends build

[@janrafhael2885]

True

[@petrarossi9981]

Yes, all Is true, but there had😢 been more than only one earthquake, that destroyed other parts of the ancient amphitheatre Flavio. It was even the Catholic church which took marble, statues and stones away to build other churches everywhere in the surroundings,plundered as well by private house builders all around it. In the world wars the population lived inside, like others did under the arcs of the ancient Roman aqueducts.

[@RaidenNexus97]

Now Godzilla sleeps there

[@RomanaImperium]

TLDR:earthquake break part and the pope took some stone too

[@ZandroXEditzzz]

No its because godzilla slept in there

[@ilect1690]

Uhh akshually the collosium, aka the flavian amphitheater was built during the reign of the flavian dynasty in 80 AD. so in reality its only 1943 years old not over 2000

[@IamG_]

Uhh actseweyually you spelt actually wrong 🤓☝️

[@shanejones578]

Romes empire went on so long, it’s between 2500-1900 years old. It could very well be older, it was redone many times.

[@shanejones578]

The Giza pyramid is 12000 years old, no reason to believe the colosseum wasn’t an earlier build as well rather than later in the empire

[@EasternRomanAficionado]

​@@shanejones578Not 12,000. The first Egyptian society existed about 6-7,000 years ago.

[@shanejones578]

@@EasternRomanAficionado the limestone blocks that make up the pyramids were constructed 12,000 years ago. The pyramid of Giza is at least 12,000 years old.

[@Marius92623]

The colosseum was also a show for the Easter story from the bible i know that from assassin's Creed brotherhood

[@tedwatson9929]

Build it Back!

[@user-fl7to3fc9g]

Earthquake people

[@adam7565]

And aWw2 for some reasons

[@DavidL1986]

It just shows how long ago the romans were, that all that has happened since

[@bishwonepali3796]

Background music name please

[@Marcy_bat]

My dad always told me that some Christians stole pieces of the Colosseum to build a church. That’s why there is so much missing. It was prolly just a joke tbh.

[@barryblack7384]

What about the great quakes in the 5th and 6th centuries that really destroyed it?

[@sela562jig]

Why does the colosseum look bigger in movies?

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

Short story: ancient Rome was incredible until Christianity took it over and brought the dark ages upon us. The end.

[@daniscarantino]

Christianity built all of the incredible buildings and statues you get to see today…

[@Darth_Ripley]

@@daniscarantinowell achtually 👆🤓

[@amalxavier5102]

One Pope destroyed colosseum one pope protected Colosseum

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

*fire and earthquake, wtf are you talking about

[@kckcmctcrc]

It was destroyed as it was allowed to be plundered for its iron, once the iron was removed, it became susceptible to earthquakes, thus it crumbled.

[@sallyhopkins7046]

may as well say nothing, than these sound bytes.

[@JustYourLocalFNAFFan]

If you think bout it, when youre on the coloseum, youreabove dead bodies Just ruined yalls day

[@Catmankitten40]

No they took the bodies somewhere else

[@Ilive4moneyable]

And now godzilla sleeps in it

[@denismefaev3983]

Colosseum stood for over 2000 years?😂 What year are we in?

[@haydencutrone6443]

Earth quake

[@youngisrealite4765]

2 Maccabees 4:10-15 [10]Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion. [11]And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law: [12]👉🏾For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat. [13]Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest;👈🏾 [14]👉🏾That the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth; [15]Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.👈🏾

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

Yes? That passage refers to Israel a couple centuries before Christ, not sure what your point is

[@youngisrealite4765]

It spoke about the coliseum, how the children of Israel would be there fighting and playing sports, heathen customs. Same as today

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

@@youngisrealite4765 The arena was present in nearly every ancient city, including for a short time Jerusalem herself

[@youngisrealite4765]

@@Set_Your_Handlle when it was in Jerusalem, was the isrealites sovereign or in captivity?

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

@@youngisrealite4765 Literally in the Bible excerpt you quoted. It's talking about a time when the Greeks introduced their games to Jerusalem in order to corrupt the youth - in the time of the Maccabees

[@Dominic-tq6dw]

Probably a Nuclear or Alien Attack. For sure Not a Fire😂!!

[@AngelNatoma]

How does stone catch fire ?

[@HistoryUnleashedOfficial]

The colosseum was made out of wood at the top!

[@aoki6332]

most building have wood and other inflammable material and most roman structure was painted so it will burn eroding the stone whit heat

[@AngelNatoma]

@@aoki6332 ok thanks for the knowledge

[@aoki6332]

@@AngelNatoma if you go see herculaneum one day you will see most of the building was from stone but was decorated whit wood and other materials the roof where mostly wood people think they where only using stone since its the only thing that did not disappear completely

[@shanejones578]

Ever seen lava lol? Everythings got a melting point. Depending on the makeup of the rock/stone it may pressurize, it may just smelt right down, etc. if you take a propane porch to your patio/sidewalk for about 30 seconds it will turn red hot and explode

[@brutus4013]

Sorry ,but it opened in 80 AD so it hasn’t stood for over 2000 years. Due the math .

[@jaweriashams2180]

Please pass my paper of history 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@user-hp8wb5gl9b]

Sa vjeçar do jet koloseu kush edin

[@jordanjohnson9866]

Nah. Not were. Not “were.” /

[@patrickcalabro8718]

I’ll stick to Jersey City 🌆 and it’s towering condominiums! The Colosseum is and always will be a useless EYE 👁 SORE! ⌛️🗿💀 🫣 😖😎🇮🇹 thank you 🎌 🚩 🏁 🧑‍🎤

[@grantmctaggart9942]

Yeah but anz stadium in Sydney can hold like 83500 people while the colosseum held 50000 so what’s the big deal?

[@mynamemylastname7179]

2000 years or 200 years🤔what is a few thousand years between friends

[@tewkewl]

it wasn't 2000 years. sorry.

[@Gizz101]

Almost was around 1940 years ago Wait

[@specialforcesguy]

I still dont get how tf could Roman empire fall?? Like how was that even possible? Sad.

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

Barbarian attacks and interior destruction of morals and order

[@Catmankitten40]

Many factors contributed

[@ribalabi-ghanem8258]

Stop spreading BS...

[@je-freenorman7787]

The Holy Roman Empire is not gone Its where you are Is the Vatican gone? Is Christianity gone? We can only wish

[@costealucia5357]

You can wish as much as you want, nothing will be gone, this is Europe.

[@je-freenorman7787]

Europe never existed before. What makes you think there wont be an end to it? Europe comes from an Ancient Aryan deity called Europa . Religion is not real. You already have a European parliament. One step closer to Global Governance @@costealucia5357

[@jaimeresendiz5245]

Lucky I was not born then. I would have tried to become Elden Lord.

[@speedwazz]

The colloseum should be destroyd ... god nows how many lives died just for the fun of people

[@Gizz101]

No

[@rexo14569]

​@@joshualegaspi8268bro what😂

[@Set_Your_Handlle]

That's why initially it was transformed into a chapel and CEMETARY, to honor and remember those lives

[@marioschulz1135]

Bs < This

[@Travis-4U]

Yeee Romans and shit

[@wuddayaat]

What?.......? That's not true!