Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From October 2024 to September 2025, a team of experts restored part of the tunnel that’s open to visitors for the first time.

Gradually, as you work, the image of how things were takes shape in your subconscious.” Unraveling the site’s tangled history, Beste identified four major building phases and numerous modifications ...

For the first time in history, the bowels of Rome’s Colosseum are now open for public viewing. The labyrinth of subterranean passageways, rooms and cages from which gladiators and prisoners used to ...

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

The Colosseum’s southern perimeter has been restored, offering a more accurate representation of the ancient monument’s original layout. The southern side of the Colosseum in Rome has just undergone a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Colosseum is a historical site atop many history buff's bucket lists, and a visit just got all the more enticing. For the ...

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.

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 ...