While most Roman amphitheaters have long since succumbed to the ravages of time, several remain or have been refurbished to a ...

This ancient town boasted its own temple, baths, forum and amphitheatre. It even garnered mentions by ancient Rome’s leading ...

Here’s how it works. The Colosseum was the largest amphitheater built in ancient Rome. The massive arena held thousands of spectators, who packed the stands to watch gladiators battle to the ...

A disaster at Rome’s Fidenae Amphitheatre in 27 AD killed an estimated 20,000 people, making it the deadliest structural failure in human history, according to ForneyVault, a software company ...

But the amphitheater offered more than pure enter­tainment. It was a political creation. So the ancient Roman poet Juvenal explained around A.D. 100, “bread and circuses” were the two pillars ...

Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture ... (Unravel the the mystery of London’s elusive Roman amphitheater.) Vomitoria really existed, but they had nothing to do with emesis.

Archaeologists in London have uncovered a section of Roman masonry that belongs to ... discoveries in the British capital since an ancient amphitheater was unearthed in the 1980s.