This unveiling follows the two-year, $29.8 million restoration project, which was initially funded by the Italian fashion company Tod’s, writes Artnet News. Now, the public can walk through 525 feet of wooden walkways for the first time in the Colosseum’s 2,000-year-old history. But in 2018 experts began renovating the hidden system of passageways, so tourists would be able to roam where gladiators and wild animals once prepared for combat.Īs Angela Giuffrida reports for the Guardian, officials unveiled the newly renovated hypogeum in a ceremony last Friday. Once the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 A.D., almost two-thirds of the Colosseum-including the network of subterranean chambers, also known as the hypogeum-fell into a state of disrepair. To make these gruesome displays possible, Roman architects and engineers designed an elaborate set of tunnels below the arena's wooden floor. Thousands of people in ancient Rome watched enslaved men, convicted criminals and untamed animals battle in a large amphitheater known as the Colosseum.
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