My understanding is that the stones used to build Rome were pinkish in colour and from particular quarries on the Italian peninsular. They used rose coloured locally mined tuff as a building block and as aggregate in their concrete and mortar and a rose coloured locally mined tevatine stone also as building blocks. So Rome would have had a light redish, pinkish or even an orange hue in appearance not the polished white it is always represented as. When baked in bright sunlight and at sunset it would have glowed like the flaming spear it is eulogised as.
Are you suggesting I may need to reassess the accuracy of “The Lion King” and “Turn Off the Dark?”
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