The tourist climbed up one of the Colosseum's railings but slipped and fell onto a sharp metal spike - which pierced his spine, leaving him dangling from the fence screaming until he fell unconscious ...

The man had been on holiday in Rome with family and friends and had visited several landmarks. The Colosseum’s remaining 31 lower arches, once entrances to arena seating, are blocked off by iron ...

‘One-on-one human battles in Colosseum-type settings were a form ... The skeleton is a centrepiece in the Life in Death in Roman Eboracum exhibition at DIG: An Archaeological Adventure in ...

According to researchers, he may have been a Bestiarius, a type of gladiator who fought animals in the arena ... themselves from the threat of death.” Although Roman gladiator events are often ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of gladiators fighting large cats like lions and tigers in public games.

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

(KTLA) – An American on vacation in Rome is reportedly recovering after climbing a fence at the ruins of the Colosseum, falling and being impaled on a metal spike in front of other horrified ...

An American tourist had to be prized off a metal fence outside the Colosseum in Rome ... of tourists descended on Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced ...

The Via Crucis at the Colosseum ... enactment of Jesus' death. Participants take turns holding the cross of his crucifixion as they walk in and around the ancient Roman arena, stopping to pray ...