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5 Unusual Facts & History of the Vatican Museum & Pantheon (Rome, Italy)

5 Unusual Facts & History of the Vatican Museum & Pantheon (Rome, Italy) If you enjoyed his video, check out my 5 Unusual Facts & the History of the Colosseum video:    • 5 Unusual Facts & History of the Colosseum...   5 Unusual Facts & the History of the Roman Forum & Mamertine Prison video:    • 5 Unusual Facts & History of the Roman For...   5 Unusual Facts of the Vatican Museum #5 EGYPTIAN & ETRUSCAN ARTIFACTS - The Vatican Museums include entire sections dedicated to Egyptian and Etruscan artifacts, so you can encounter mummy coffins, hieroglyphic-covered sarcophagi, and Etruscan bronzes within the heart of the papal collections. #4 GALLERY OF MAPS - The Gallery of Maps is the world’s largest pictorial geographical study. #3 70,000 WORKS - The entire collection includes about 70,000 works of art, but only around 20,000 are on display at any given time; the rest remain in storage or conservation. #2 54 MUSEUMS - The Vatican Museums are actually a complex of 54 separate museums, all linked together in a single visiting route that culminates in the Sistine Chapel. #1 9 MILES - If you walked all of the galleries end to end, you would cover roughly 9 miles of corridors, enough to wrap around the Vatican walls about four and a half times. 5 Unusual Facts of the Pantheon #5 The Pantheon doubles as a royal and artistic mausoleum Several famous figures are buried inside, including the painter Raphael and Italian kings Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, so it functions as both church and national shrine. #4 The Pantheon acted as a giant sundial The shifting circle of light from the oculus likely worked as an enormous interior sundial, with the beam’s position helping Romans track the hours and possibly important dates in the ritual calendar. #3 The Pantheon dome gets lighter as it rises The concrete mix changes with height: heavier materials at the base and lighter aggregates (like pumice) toward the top reduce weight and stress, letting the huge dome stand without internal supports. #2 The Pantheon Height and width form a perfect sphere The interior height from floor to oculus and the internal diameter are the same (about 43 meters / 142 feet), so the space could contain a perfect sphere touching floor, walls, and oculus. #1 The Pantheon dome is still a world record The Pantheon’s concrete dome, built around 125 CE, is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth, almost 2,000 years later.