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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome's Colosseum, pictured in August 2023, was the site of a gruesome incident late last week. (Marc Martin/Los Angeles Times) An ...

Just prior to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Rome’s giant, eternally famous Colosseum stood as a stage for combat, bloodbaths, and general entertainment. Now, roughly 2,000 years later, the ...

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. Thousands of Romans once flocked to this ...

Next spring, travel company Airbnb will welcome 32 lucky people into the Colosseum—the ancient Roman amphitheater in which enslaved combatants once fought to the death—where they’ll don ...

ROME — The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5-million sponsorship deal with Airbnb that aims to promote “a ...

An Irish tourist has been accused of vandalizing Rome’s Colosseum after security staff spotted him allegedly carving his initials into the ancient Italian structure. The Carabinieri police said the 32 ...

Don't expect gladiators to make a latter-day comeback. And soccer has already been ruled out. But an archaeologist's proposal to return the Colosseum's storied arena to the state it was in when ...

The bread-and-circuses approach to public policy has never been more ambitiously or outrageously memorialized than by the eternal centerpiece of the Eternal City—the subject of “Colosseum,” the ...

An American tourist’s visit to the Colosseum in Rome took a turn for the terrifying after the man impaled himself on a fence and was left dangling and screaming in pain, while other visitors looked on ...

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 ...