Did You Know the Colosseum Is Concrete?

Jennifer R. Povey
3 min readOct 12, 2021
Photo by David Köhler on Unsplash

The Colosseum is honestly high on my bucket list (in fact, if it wasn’t for the blasted plague…)

The remarkable condition of the ancient stadium, which seated 50,000, is down to the material it was made of.

Concrete.

How Was the Colosseum Built?

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.