Archaeologists working near Rome's Colosseum uncovered eight rooms with mosaics and painted decorations that may belong to an ancient Roman firehouse.

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 ...

The Colosseum was one of Rome’s greatest engineering and entertainment projects, but its true cost is difficult to measure.

As the most enduring symbol of the Roman Empire and one of the most famous landmarks in the world, the Colosseum draws more ...

Visited by millions every year, the Colosseum has already been vandalized four times in 2023. Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 A video has surfaced showing a tourist carving into ...

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’s Colosseum has stood in the city for nearly 2,000 years, but the stresses of being situated in a modern metropolitan center have taken their toll on the gladiatorial arena. Thanks to ...

An English tourist who was filmed carving a note into the Colosseum in Rome has written a letter apologizing for defacing the nearly 2,000-year-old amphitheater and claimed he was unaware that the ...

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 ...