Tomb of Lars Porsena
The tomb of the Etruscan king Lars Porsena (Template:Langx) is a legendary ancient building in what is now central Italy.[1] Allegedly built around 500 BCE at Clusium (modern Chiusi, in south-eastern Tuscany), and was described as follows by the Roman writer Marcus Varro (116–27 BCE):
Destruction of the tomb
This structure, standing some 200 meters high, was supposedly destroyed along with Clusium itself in 89 BCE by the Roman general Cornelius Sulla.[2] No trace of it has ever been found, and historians have generally regarded Varro’s account as a gross exaggeration at best, and downright fabrication at worst. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In the 18th century Angelo Cortenovis proposed that the tomb of Lars Porsena was a machine for conducting lightning.[3]
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