The Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheatre in the heart of the northern Italian city, will host the closing ceremony for the ...

What – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

Roberto Bolle, the internationally acclaimed ballet star, will headline the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics closing ...

The Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheatre in Italy, will host the closing ceremony for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Scheduled for February 22, this will be the first Olympic Ceremony at a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s state-run news agency says the Islamic State group has destroyed parts of the Roman amphitheater in Syria’s historic town of Palmyra. SANA says the militants destroyed “the ...

Archaeologists have discovered what might be the last Roman gladiator arena ever built. And it is a long way from the capital. In December 2021, a group of archaeologists supervising a boathouse ...

ROME (AP) — The man who just took charge of Rome’s top tourist attraction wants to set the record straight: the Colosseum won ...

For the ancient Romans, spectacles held in amphitheaters were a form of thrilling entertainment, with fights pitting slaves and criminals against each other, as well as humans against beasts. New ...

An Italian travel expert has lauded a colosseum in North Africa that’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site but remains relatively unknown.

Construction of a new boathouse at the Basel Rowing Club in Switzerland has turned up the ruins of what might have been the last gladiator arena the Romans ever built. Archaeologists from the Aargau ...