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“And for centuries, Rome could provide all of this. Until.…” — Slate Daily Feed at 21:21

Slate Daily Feed Slow Burn - Decoder Ring | We Are Monumentally Bad at Statues

“And for centuries, Rome could provide all of this. Until. The fall of a Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire collapses in the 400s AD, this infrastructure goes away, and the naturalistic sculpture tradition is revealed to be surprisingly precarious.”

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