The project focused on a semicircular piazza outside the arena, where spectators crowded under two arcades comprised of ...
Before Pompeii was engulfed in volcanic ash, its walls may have been battered by an ancient "machine gun" while the city was under siege. A study has uncovered compelling evidence that Roman forces ...
Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.
ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to ...
The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.
A major restoration of the Colosseum has given it a bright new look, using the same travertine stone Roman builders used 2,000 years ago.
The restoration is intended to give visitors a sense of the historic structure's original scale.