The passage, constructed somewhere between the years 90 and 98, allowed emperors to get to their seats without having to use the main entrances, the vomitoria, through which the masses would spew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome reopened the Colosseum's secret imperial corridor to the public in October, following extensive restoration funded by ...

Despite a lustrous popular image burnished by the 2000 film “Gladiator,” Marcus Aurelius is, to scholars, a controversial figure. Some see his “Meditations,” his collection of precepts for ...

Want to walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors? Now you can because an ancient secret passageway in Rome's Colosseum used exclusively by emperors is now open to the public for the first time since ...

WE usually only remember the names of the “bad” Roman emperors. Like Nero, who fiddled while Rome burnt and murdered his mum. Caligula, who slept with all three of his sisters and appointed his ...

The Passage of Commodus was used by Roman emperors. Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park A secret tunnel in the Colosseum once used by Roman emperors has opened to the public for the first ...

The Five Good Emperors is a term referring to a group of Roman emperors who reigned between the 1 st and 2 nd centuries AD. This period is often regarded to be the high point of the Roman Empire, as ...

The newly restored underground corridor, once reserved for the emperor's hidden walk to his honor box, still bears clamps from lost marble panels and frescoes of wild boar hunts and mythic combat. For ...

For the first time in nearly 2,000 years, visitors to Rome’s world-renowned Colosseum will have the opportunity to walk through a hidden imperial passage that once allowed Roman emperors to reach the ...