ROME (AP) —- An animal rights group has brought the show backat the Colosseum —- only this time jugglers and clowns took thestage instead of gladiators fighting wild beasts. Italian animal rights ...

Roman built in the year 80 ADColosseumIs a gigantic amphitheater that can accommodate about 50,000 people. In Colosseum, not only the battle of gladiators but also fighting between ferocious wildlife ...

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Archaeologists recreate lifts that carried up Roman lions into the Colosseum where they fought to the death with gladiators. "The number of lifts here was more than in any other Roman amphitheatre and ...

Archeologists have unearthed a private mini-Colosseum built by the notorious Roman emperor who featured in the Oscar-winning film Gladiator. Commodus used the 2nd century ampitheatre on his estate in ...

In Roman times, they didn't have video games. So they had to settle for watching humans and animals being killed in real life. One entertainment at Rome's beautiful Colosseum was to carry animals up ...

Watching gladiators fight to the death was hungry work, and it appears that the best snacks to accompany such a spectacle were olives, fruits and nuts. Archaeologists have discovered some ancient ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

A large, newly restored area of the Colosseum, which used to be the underground backstage of the ancient Roman amphitheater, is now accessible to the public for the first time. Visitors can use a ...