A new History Channel series about the Colosseum in Rome places this famous, ancient arena at the very center of world history. “The Colosseum would come to symbolize the rise and fall of Rome,” says ...
The bread-and-circuses approach to public policy has never been more ambitiously or outrageously memorialized than by the eternal centerpiece of the Eternal City—the subject of “Colosseum,” the ...
The following is a script of "Saving History" which aired on Oct. 19, 2014. Morley Safer is the correspondent. David Browning and Sabina Castelfranco, producers. It's estimated that Italy is home to ...
When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...