Historic Site Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/historic-site/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:36:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Rome’s Colosseum is to get a high tech stage floor https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 13:51:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6846 Italy’s Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced the winner of a technical tender to design and build a new stage floor for the 2,000 year old Colosseum. The original wooden arena floor covered an underground network of rooms and corridors, which housed the waiting animals, gladiators and performers. This level was exposed in the […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/feed/ 0 Capt Scott’s Antarctic Legacy in Cardiff https://mechtraveller.com/2019/01/capt-scotts-antarctic-legacy-in-cardiff/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/01/capt-scotts-antarctic-legacy-in-cardiff/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:46:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3991 There was a public auction today, of memorabilia and documents from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, also known as the Nimrod Expedition. A ‘hat-tip’ to former colleague, Matthew Teller, for spotting it and posting it on Twitter. The Lots 1-6 being sold off in Golding Young & Mawer Grantham’s Collective Sale, include several autographed menus […]

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