Visitors can now walk along a 525-foot pathway through the subterranean levels of Rome's Colosseum. The area was once the backstage for gladiator fights, wild animal hunts, and even public executions.

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 ...

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 ...

Another tourist carved into the walls of the Colosseum earlier this month. But, experts say people have been defacing the monument for centuries. Even ancient Romans themselves were known to tag the ...

Some things never change in Rome, they say. Now, however, the Colosseum has proved that theory wrong, by opening its subterranean levels to the public. It is not only the first time in 2,000 years ...

In a recent statement from the Colosseum Archaeological Park, a secret tunnel once only used by Roman emperors has become available to the public for the first time ever. The underground tunnel starts ...

A once-secret passage used by Emperor Commodus to access the Rome Colosseum is opening to the public for the first time, allowing visitors to experience the imperial route nearly 2,000 years after its ...

Long before modern-day tourists carved their initials and love notes on the walls of the Colosseum, spectators of what was once the largest amphitheater of the Roman Empire also etched their names on ...

The famed Colosseum in Rome fell into neglect hundreds of years ago, making visitors today strain to imagine how it looked in all its glory back in ancient times. Now the huge stone amphitheater, one ...