Atrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.orgAtrabiliousaurus@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
Just came across a mention of this in the toldinstone video How Dangerous Was the Front Row of the Colosseum?.
minus-squareathos77@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21·11 months agoThe population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.
The population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.