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 ...

The battered skull of a brown bear discovered near a Roman amphitheater in Serbia reveals that the wild animal had been kept in captivity for years and was fighting off an infection when it died ...

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 ...

Ridley Scott may have been ridiculed for portraying gladiators riding rhinos and scrapping with sharks in his latest film. But it seems the real Roman fighters did pick fights with a colourful array ...

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.

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

Gladiators Return to the Arena ⚔️ #FNC12 this Saturday | Pula Arena 🇭🇷 pic.twitter.com/t0nuX1WqPp — FNC (@FNCmma) August 28, 2023 In the ongoing feud ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's first outdoor opera performance, a production of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata," has brought hundreds of spectators to a Roman amphitheater in the capital, Amman. More ...

Standing in the middle of this huge Roman amphitheatre, in awe of the ancient architecture I’m surrounded by, I can’t quite believe this isn’t the Colosseum itself. But rather than being in Italy, I’m ...