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 ...

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 HISTORY® Channel will debut "Colosseum," a new premium documentary series beginning Sunday, July 17 at 9pm ET/PT. The eight-part series vividly brings to life the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ...

Don't expect gladiators to make a latter-day comeback. And soccer has already been ruled out. But an archaeologist's proposal to return the Colosseum's storied arena to the state it was in when ...

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 ...

A once-secret passage used by Emperor Commodus to access the Rome Colosseum is opening to the public for the first time, allowing visitors to experience the imperial route nearly 2,000 years after its ...

Some things never change in Rome, they say. Now, however, the Colosseum has proved that theory wrong, by opening its subterranean levels to the public. It is not only the first time in 2,000 years ...

The Colosseum is a historical site atop many history buff's bucket lists, and a visit just got all the more enticing. For the first time in 2,000 years, tourists can walk where the emperor did through ...