The Colosseum in ancient Rome had 50,000 spectators, the roar of the crowd, and… a snack break? Yep, the Romans didn’t just ...

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 promote "a more ...

I have read about the Coliseum of Rome since I was a pre-teen interested in Roman history and civilization. I had never visited it until this evening, and it was an accident. All the pictures and ...

Pack up your dusty sandals and brutal weapons, folks. It's time for "Gladiator II" and our collective return to glorious if savage ancient Rome. (And if you're really into it, "Gladiator III" could be ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the shining ...

The Venerable Saint Bede once said, “Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does; when the Colosseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.” I don’t know about that, but just in ...

In ancient Rome, plenty of public kissing went on in the shadow of the Coliseum, where lips smacked on hands, cheeks, rings and even feet, as simple greetings or formal signs of submission. The place ...

For the second time in less than a month, a tourist has been caught on video while vandalizing the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. Italian tour guide David Battaglino recorded the tourist as she began 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 ...