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Did the Romans build seismic invisibility cloaks?

23 Apr 2019
Colosseum
Ancient metamaterials: the Colosseum in Rome could be protected from earthquake damage by a seismic invisibility cloak. (Courtesy: Bengt Nyman/CC BY 2.0)
Ancient Romans may have built structures that acted like invisibility cloaks long before physicists

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in Rome
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