In Roman times, they didn't have video games. So they had to settle for watching humans and animals being killed in real life. One entertainment at Rome's beautiful Colosseum was to carry animals up ...

ROME (AP) —- An animal rights group has brought the show backat the Colosseum —- only this time jugglers and clowns took thestage instead of gladiators fighting wild beasts. Italian animal rights ...

The Romans brought bears, tigers, giraffes, and exotic animals from across the known world to die in arena spectacles. Capturing and transporting them required hunters, traders, ships, cages, and a ...

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Researchers have discovered traces of food and animal bones beneath the stadium. Gregorio Borgia ASSOCIATED PRESS An exploration of ancient sewers beneath the Colosseum, the world’s most recognizable ...

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An elevator used to lift lions and other animals into Rome's Colosseum has been restored by experts. The lift was originally used to carry the animals into the arena's famed gladiator fights in the ...

ROME, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A year-long study of the drainage system under the Colosseum has unearthed fragments of the bones of bears and big cats that were probably used to fight or as prey in hunting ...