Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome

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1. Story
2. The largest amphitheatre of the Roman world, begun under Vespasian in AD 72 and opened by Titus in AD 80 with a hundred days of games. Estimates of its seating capacity vary widely across sources, from roughly 50,000 to 80,000. It stands in the Historic Centre of Rome, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980. It could not have appeared on the Hellenistic list of wonders because it did not yet exist when that list was being written.
3. Knowledge
4. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
5. New7Wonders Foundation
6. Rome
7. The voussoir arch
8. Roman concrete (opus caementicium)
9. Connections
10. The voussoir arch
11. Roman concrete (opus caementicium)
12. Rome
13. New7Wonders Foundation
14. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
15. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
16. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
17. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
18. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
19. Pont du Gard
20. Load path
21. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
22. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
23. The dome
24. The Gothic rib vault
25. Roman builders adopt pozzolanic concrete
26. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
27. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
28. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
29. Reinforced concrete
30. The Pantheon, Rome
31. The Pantheon, Rome
32. Roman builders adopt pozzolanic concrete
33. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
34. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
35. Lime clasts reinterpreted as hot mixing and self-healing
36. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
37. The Roman Legion
38. Roman Law
39. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
40. Ostia Antica
41. Via Appia
42. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
43. Construction of the Via Appia begins
44. The Punic Wars
45. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
46. Assassination of Julius Caesar
47. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
48. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
49. Dedication of Constantinople
50. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
51. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
52. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
53. The Pantheon, Rome
54. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
55. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
56. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
57. Petra
58. Machu Picchu
59. Taj Mahal
60. Great Wall of China
61. Chichen Itza
62. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
63. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
64. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
65. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
66. Evidence
67. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.
68. The campaign's own account of the seven elected sites, the reported vote volume, and the special status given to the Great Pyramid after Egypt's objection.