The Colosseum is the most recognizable building surviving from the ancient world, and one ...

At the time of the structure's construction in the second century C.E., firefighting in ancient Rome was a formalized ...

The Romans had a knack for transforming ordinary duels into elaborately staged spectacles.

Beneath the ancient soil of Romes Caelian Hill, just steps from the iconic Colosseum, archaeologists stumbled upon a stunning two-thousand-year-old secret. An excavation revealed an eight-room ...

Though I took steps to avoid tourists when I visited the Colosseum, I found it was too crowded to enjoy Rome's iconic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors can now walk along a 525-foot pathway through the subterranean levels of Rome's Colosseum. The area was once the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a second-century building adorned with mosaics and frescoes near Rome's Colosseum that may have ...

Note: Keep in mind that most Colosseum tours only include access to the arena floor and the upper level. If you want to visit ...

If you’ve ever visited the Roman Colosseum and wished that you could stand on a retractable floor at the center of the action, where gladiators battled with apex predators, and embarrass your family ...

ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Epcot’s Spaceship Earth ...

For 2,000 years, the Colosseum in Rome could be explored from the interior and exterior of its walls. Meanwhile, the underground part of the arena was inaccessible. The Flavian Amphitheatre, commonly ...