The Sun·1 min read·medium
Fraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’
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An Italian man has been jailed for constructing a fake Roman amphitheatre and charging tourists to visit it under false pretenses. He claimed the site was the world's oldest, despite the structures being modern fabrications.
AN ITALIAN man charged tourists £35 to see the world’s oldest open-air amphitheatre, near which Juliet Capulet had lived. The only problem was that the artefacts were crafted in the early 2000s – not before 393AD – out of stuccoed blocks, fibreglass ... [1823 chars]
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