Though I took steps to avoid tourists when I visited the Colosseum, I found it was too crowded to enjoy Rome's iconic ...

Note: Keep in mind that most Colosseum tours only include access to the arena floor and the upper level. If you want to visit ...

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 ...

A seat at the Colosseum was never just a seat—it was a public statement of rank, connections, and power. In a city of nearly ...

The Colosseum’s greatest secret was not in the arena but beneath it. The Hypogeum was a hidden world of tunnels, cages, lifts ...

For the first time ever, the bowels below Rome’s Colosseum, where gladiators and animals waited before combat, are open to the public. Following an extensive renovation, the hypogea—as the area ...

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 ...

In a famous prophesy a medieval monk known as Venerable Bede wrote that "Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does; when the Colosseum falls so will Rome; when Rome falls so will the world.” While ...

The Colosseum in Rome is the most popular tourist attractions in Italy and among the most popular in all of Europe, with more than 8 million people visiting every year. Many Colosseum visitors make a ...

ROME (AFP) — The din of caged animals, the smell of gladiators’ fear and the thunder of tens of thousands of cheering spectators above have all evaporated with the passage of time. But walking through ...

Rome's ancient Colosseum has not had an arena floor since the 19th Century The Italian government has approved a plan to furnish Rome's ancient Colosseum with a new floor, giving visitors the chance ...