Rome's Colosseum is getting a brand-new $22 million retractable floor that will provide visitors with a look into the past. Announced Sunday by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, the new setup would ...

Just prior to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Rome’s giant, eternally famous Colosseum stood as a stage for combat, bloodbaths, and general entertainment. Now, roughly 2,000 years later, the ...

ROME — For 500 years, the Colosseum was the biggest amphitheater in the Roman empire, hosting gladiator fights, executions and animal hunts. Then it fell into disrepair. Now, nearly 2,000 years after ...

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 ...

A new arena floor will be added to Rome’s iconic Colosseum to give visitors an idea of how the ancient Italian structure looked when gladiators fought there. The project “will give us back the same ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rome's ancient Colosseum, the famous arena where gladiators and wild animals once clashed in ...

The Italian government announced plans to give Rome’s ancient Colosseum a new floor. The construction would allow future visitors to stand where gladiators once stood. An Italian engineering firm won ...

May 3 (UPI) --The ancient Roman Colosseum will get a new gladiator floor, which will give visitors a chance to see what spectators saw when gladiators did battle there. Architects in the early 19th ...

ROME — For 500 years, the Colosseum was the biggest amphitheater in the Roman empire, hosting gladiator fights, executions and animal hunts. Then it fell into disrepair. Now, nearly 2,000 years after ...