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.

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 ...