A major restoration of the Colosseum has given it a bright new look, using the same travertine stone Roman builders used 2,000 years ago.

From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

The Colosseum in Rome was remarkable for a few reasons upon its construction in the first century C.E. The most obvious was its size. At four stories high and with 80 arched entrances, the ...

Thousands of years ago, crowds gathered at the Colosseum in Rome to watch gladiator battles and other grisly spectacles. Now, 21st-century visitors will get a better sense of how ancient audiences ...

Rome’s Colosseum, which is also known as the Anfiteatro Flavio, is ringed by a trio of ancient luxury neighborhoods—Celio, Monti and Colle Oppio—that each have a distinct character. Celio, one of the ...

ROME, Italy — 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 ...

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 ...

The restoration of a wall painting depicting an idealized Jerusalem is a reminder that the Roman monument, known best for gladiatorial combat, was a sacred Christian space for centuries. By Elisabetta ...