Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome's Colosseum is getting a brand-new $22 million retractable floor that will provide visitors with a look into the past.

Just prior to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Rome’s giant, eternally famous Colosseum stood as a stage for combat, bloodbaths, and general entertainment. Now, roughly 2,000 years later, the ...

If you’ve ever visited the Roman Colosseum and wished that you could stand on a retractable floor at the center of the action, where gladiators battled with apex predators, and embarrass your family ...

ROME — For 500 years, the Colosseum was the biggest amphitheater in the Roman empire, hosting gladiator fights, executions and animal hunts. Then it fell into disrepair. Now, nearly 2,000 years after ...

The Italian government announced plans to give Rome’s ancient Colosseum a new floor. The construction would allow future visitors to stand where gladiators once stood. An Italian engineering firm won ...

ROME - Plans have been revealed for a new, remote-controlled retractable floor system at the Colosseum in Rome, which will feature Accoya wood. The floor, proposed by engineering firm Milan Ingegneria ...

The Italian Culture Ministry announced on Sunday the winning project in a competition to build a replacement floor for the Colosseum in Rome. The plan includes a lattice floor made out of specially ...

A new arena floor will be added to Rome’s iconic Colosseum to give visitors an idea of how the ancient Italian structure looked when gladiators fought there. The project “will give us back the same ...