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- A tourist carved "Ivan+Haley 23" into the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome. The man was identified as Ivan Dimitrov, and he faces fines of up to $16,000 and five years in jail. Dimitrov said in an apology letter that he didn't realize the ancient site's age.
- Reuters
Dutch tourist accused of defacing ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum
A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian ...
12 hours ago
- Fox News
Tourist defaces ancient Roman wall on vacation, angering Italian authorities
The incident took place in Herculaneum, an Ancient Roman town that – like Pompeii – was covered in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. In a press release published Monday ...
4 hours ago
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Jul 5, 2023 · Tourist Seen Defacing Rome’s Colosseum Says He Didn’t Know It Was Ancient - The New York Times. Who Knew the Colosseum Was So Old? Tourist Apologizes for Defacement.
Jul 6, 2023 · Eric Lagatta. USA TODAY. 0:00. 0:31. An English tourist who was filmed carving a note into the Colosseum in Rome has written a letter apologizing for defacing the nearly 2,000-year-old...
Jul 5, 2023 · Jul 5, 2023, 11:10 AM PDT. The Colosseum in Rome. Shutterstock/Viacheslav Lopatin. A tourist carved "Ivan+Haley 23" into the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome. The man was...
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Jul 16, 2023 · Italy's Colosseum Defaced yet Again by a Teenage Tourist: Report. Travel. A teenage tourist is under investigation after she was filmed defacing Rome's Colosseum by a tour guide who...
Jul 6, 2023 · Traffic in front of the Colosseum in Rome on June 12. (Gaia Squarci/Bloomberg News) 2 min. The tourist who infuriated a nation when he was captured scratching a love note into the Colosseum...
Jul 6, 2023 · A tourist who was caught on video defacing the wall of the Colosseum in Rome last month by carving a love note into it claims in a letter of apology that he was unaware the nearly...
Jul 21, 2023 · On Friday, a 17-year-old girl from Switzerland was spotted apparently carving her initials into a wall of the building by a tourist guide, a spokesperson for the local military police force, the...