The ISS transits over the Colosseum in Rome in this remarkable image captured on Dec. 6, 2021. Gianluca Masi. The International Space Station is tricky to photograph from down on Earth.

For 2,000 years, the Colosseum in Rome could be explored from the interior and exterior of its walls. Meanwhile, the underground part of the arena was inaccessible. The Colosseum pictured on March ...

The giant marble map of ancient Rome is shown to the media in the Archaeological Park of Mount Celio Museum overlooking the Colosseum in Rome, on Jan. 11, 2024.

When Rome’s center-left administration came into power in October 2021, the area where the skatepark now stands was littered with syringes and run down, its benches defaced and broken.

ROME — The Colosseum has emerged more imposing than ever after its most extensive restoration, a multimillion-euro cleaning to remove a dreary, undignified patina of soot and grime from the ...

When the botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing among the ruins. There were plants common in Italy: cypresses and hollies, capers ...

View of the Colosseum dungeons which have been restored in a multi-million euro project sponsored by fashion group Tod's in Rome, Italy, June 24 2021. Picture taken June 24 2021.

Tourists walk by the ancient Roman Colosseum in Rome, Sept. 5, 2024. The ancient site is set to become the venue for staged gladiator fights under a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Airbnb.

ROME — The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5-million sponsorship deal with Airbnb that aims to ...