Last Roman Era Amphitheater Unearthed Near a Boathouse, Spectators Watched Gladiator Fights in the Arena In a quiet corner of ...
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...
At Rome’s Colosseum, a system of ropes and pulleys could lift ... The smells from the remains of games held in this or any other amphitheater must have been ghastly — a combination of blood, guts, ...