Have you ever seen a two-thousand-year-old sports arena from the sky? Welcome to Rome, where ancient history sits right in ...

A new History Channel series about the Colosseum in Rome places this famous, ancient arena at the very center of world history. “The Colosseum would come to symbolize the rise and fall of Rome,” says ...

The Colosseum is a historical site atop many history buff's bucket lists, and a visit just got all the more enticing. For the first time in 2,000 years, tourists can walk where the emperor did through ...

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 ...

In a recent statement from the Colosseum Archaeological Park, a secret tunnel once only used by Roman emperors has become ...

Anyone who’s seen the movie Gladiator (2000) knows that the ancient Romans loved a good spectacle, especially if it involved a fight to the death. But it turns out just throwing fighters (man or ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The HISTORY® Channel will debut "Colosseum," a new premium documentary ...

Millions of tourists visit the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel each year, but only a tiny fraction of those masses manage to get ...

The Colosseum in Rome held a special tour to mark Women's Day on Thursday, exploring the famous monument's feminine angle -- from female gladiators to noblewomen in love with the arena fighters. "From ...

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...

ROME (TND) — A young man's brash act during a trip to Rome could end in thousands of dollars of fines and several years in prison. An unknown tourist was caught on film – by American traveler Ryan ...