Remains Of Ampitheater, Near Cagliari
Take an interesting look at what scholars and travelers have discovered during their visit in Sardinia during the early part of the 20th century. The photo and caption were taken from an article in The National Geographic Magazine written by Helen Dunstan Wright, August 1916 Volume XXX Number Two.
This extensive ruin, with its rock-hewn benches, is a relic of Roman occupation. Sardinia furnished more human victims for the games in the great capital of the ancient world than sports for its own people. It is recorded that Sempronius Gracchus, after quelling two insurrections of mountain tribes, took 80,000 Sardinian slaves to Rome.
