The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Rome
Alyse Stanley
No matter where you go in the world, there’s likely a McDonald’s nearby. But while it seems its greasy hegemony over the fast food industry is endless, there’s one place it will likely never build a store following a recent decision.
Eight hundred years ago, teenager Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man in Italy. He then headed to a cave where he lived for 34 years, whipping himself to atone for his sins. Today, his story lives in the Vatican Secret Archives, on a piece of parchment covered in purple spots.
If you build a new Metro line in Rome, you have to worry about more than just engineering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the construction team working on the Metro C, which will run through the centre of the city, has now unearthed a huge suite of ancient barracks.
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