It used to be larger than it is now. There was another row around and another row on top of what you see today. It seated more than 60000 people. I’d grant it a status of „pretty large“. A visit to Rome I want to highly recommended.

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I'm most curious to know how one cracks a word-based substitution without knowing the key.

I guess the saying rings true.

One man's trash is another man's treasure

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Basically the answer is very simple: Rome was not a monolingual empire, even at state level. Learned people in rome, politicians, nobles, scholars, even high ranking army officers would be educated to speak both Latin and Greek. The entire eastern mediterranean had started using greek as a lingua franca after Alexander's conquests, and Greek also happened to be a "prestige language" among the Roman elite, so they never made any effort to dislodge or replace it. They simply adopted it as the secondary state language, and thus Greek continued it's dominance in the east.

As for why the Romans were so accepting of Greek to begin with, the answer to that is also fairly simple: The greeks colonized southern Italy long before Rome emerged as a major power, and thus they'd been in constant contact with the Greek language and culture since they were a tiny city state.

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Otter's noses?

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Full disclosure, I've never seen it in person, only through Google Street view, internet pictures, etc. However, I feel like Assassin's Creed did a good job with the proportions.

What about Gobekli Tope?

Also, that region, Fertile Crescent and Eurasia, seems to be the birthplace of our entire modern civilization.

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thank you. why are all these sites pure cancer.

Well, what’s it say then?

Pretty sure bread was involved

Dan Brown salivating rn

I've never been there but even from the pictures it looks way smaller than how its portrayed in Gladiator. In Gladiator, it looks like a football stadium.

Carlin's off with his numbers, the estimate of Gaul's population of the time being approximately 3 million is a rather dated figure with current evaluations being between 10-12 million. Similarly Gallic loses are pushed back to approximately 1 million, give or take a 100 thousand either side.

It's worth noting that Dan is merely by his own words a "fan of History, not a historian", much less one working in their field of specialization.