A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Mourners will bid a final farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday during his funeral Mass, which is expected to draw ...

A lion's bite has confirmed the death of a gladiator in an ancient Roman arena - revealing a brutal spectacle far beyond the Colosseum. Archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of ...

Oquin adds that for centuries, cultures around the world have measured their significance partly by the height of their ...

repairs and protects," the pope wrote for the nighttime ceremony April 18 in Rome's Colosseum. "Today's builders of Babel ...

Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

A start without fanfare, but there is optimism for the coming months. This is the initial assessment of the Jubilee Year that emerges from a survey by Confcommercio Roma (in collaboration with ...

The countdown has begun: this summer, according to the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, work will finally begin on the construction of the waste-to-energy plant in Santa Palomba. The ...

The Colosseum in Rome exemplifies Roman construction prowess. Completed in 80 A.D., it took about 10 years to build. Emperor Vespasian initiated its construction on land previously used by Emperor ...

showing that gladiator arenas that featured animals imported from other countries were part of the culture and lifestyle far from the reaches of the Colosseum in Rome. Burials didn’t take place ...

and transform Rome". A record 3,200 public construction works were scheduled ... to visit major tourist sites such as the Vatican and Colosseum, go earlier in the morning rather than in the ...