A small bit of Rome's ancient
Aurelian Walls fell off Friday. The wall was already being
shored up in the area, in Viale del Policlinico, where the
collapse took place. Officials said the collapse had been caused
by recent earthquakes. The Aurelian Walls are a line of city
walls built to protect the city from barbarian threats between
271 AD and 275 AD, during the reigns of the Roman Emperors
Aurelian and Probus. They superseded the earlier Servian Wall
built during the 4th century BC.
photo: a crack that opened up in another part of the walls last
October
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