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To: Elroy who wrote (26173)	10/8/2025 1:36:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 26422

My wife and I visited Rome a few months ago. We hired a service called "Tours by Locals" to show us around the old city. The guide was an archaeologist (with an office in the colosseum) and interpreted what we were seeing and answered our questions. One of the questions was "Why was everything broken?" I expected the answer to be a battle of some sort. The answer was that each block or slab was kept in place by an iron pin which was coated in lead. Each tablet or mosaic or decoration was held in place by an iron hook coated in lead. The guide showed us some hidden places where a pin could be found. In the "Dark Ages" about 500 AD the entire city of Rome was mined for these metal pins. Holes were cut into big blocks to access the connections. Smaller stone and decorations were simply pushed over or broken with hammers to expose the metal for collection. Very few structures were spared.

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