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Fraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’
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 and papier-mâché to look ancient. And William Sha...
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What happenedFraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’.
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Right / center-rightFraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’
Fraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’
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 2...
Fraudster jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre & charging tourists £35 to visit site he said was ‘world’s oldest’
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 2...
