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 ...

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 ...

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

Colosseum is an eight-part series made in what is now History’s signature style: A docuseries that’s punctuated by dramatic live-action scenes. It attempts to tell the history of the Roman empire via ...

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 ...

In suggesting that the Roman Colosseum “was financed by three emperors from the Flavian dynasty,” Andrea Salcedo’s July 10 Retropolis column, “The Colosseum’s long history of vandalism,” neglected to ...

As the Italian government struggles to maintain its historic ruins and monuments, Morley Safer discovers it's become fashionable to help The following is a script of "Saving History" which aired on ...