2,000-year-old Rome pyramid getting visibility after cleanup

2,000-year-old Rome pyramid getting visibility after cleanup, Rome's alone actual pyramid from age-old times is accepting beginning visibility.

After a Japanese accouterment magnate paid for a cleanup, archaeologists are acquisitive to appearance off the monument, complete about 2,000 years ago as the burying tomb for a Roman praetor, or magistrate, called Caius Cestius.

Although aerial 36 meters (119 feet) high, the pyramid has continued been abandoned by a lot of tourists. Decades of crud begrimed the buttery white Carrara marble exoteric of the cairn abreast a traffic-clogged circle abreast a alms stop. The pyramid's abject is lower than artery akin back Rome has been congenital up over the centuries, so abounding don't acknowledge the monument's height.

Archaeologist Leonardo Guarnieri told reporters Wednesday that tours, including of the frescoed burying chamber, are accustomed alert account aloft reservation.

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