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The British tourist who attracted outrage in Rome after being accused of carving his name into the Colosseum walls with a key is facing up to five years in prison and a €15,000 (£12,850) fine.
The Colosseum is today one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions, receiving millions of visitors annually. [citation needed] The effects of pollution and general deterioration over time prompted a major restoration programme carried out between 1993 and 2000, at a cost of 40 billion lire ($19.3 million or €20.6 million at 2000 prices).
Renowned British artist J. M. W. Turner painted Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino in 1839, following his final trip to the city. [70] Rome: Ruins of the Forum, Looking Towards the Capitol (1742) by Canaletto, showing the remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux. The Roman Forum has been a source of inspiration for visual artists for centuries.
25 May, 567 BC—Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. 566 BC —The first known Panathenaic Games of Ancient Greece are held in Athens . 562 BC — Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon .
An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city (modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus). The plague wipes out over 30,000 citizens, sailors, and soldiers as well as Pericles' two sons. Roughly one-quarter of the Athenian population dies.
In 88 BC, Athens and other Greek city-states revolted against Rome and were suppressed by General Lucius Cornelius Sulla. During the Roman civil wars, Greece was physically and economically devastated until Augustus organised the peninsula as the province of Achaea , in 27 BC.
The year 530 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 224 Ab urbe condita.The denomination 530 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Athens-Clarke County police block traffic and investigate at the UGA intramural Fields after the body of a women was found with visible injuries in the woods around Lake Herrick in Athens, Ga., on ...