Colosseum's

And as for the Colosseum's closest structural parallel in New York, Madison Square Garden, the less said the better.

A Wonder From Any Angle 2010

Tourists filing through the Colosseum's archways are still greeted by a phallic symbol, centuries after it was etched into the stone surface of the ancient arena.

Urban Scrawl: Rome's Graffiti Pits Artists Against Clean-Up Crews 2010

The most popular theory is that the fragments were once part of the Colosseum's decorations.

Discoveries from Ancient Rome 2008

When the overhaul is finished in 2003, visitors will be able to explore parts of the Flavian Amphitheater (the Colosseum's proper name) that have been out of public view for centuries -- and a few that were off-limits even in the days of the emperors.

Rebuilding The Colosseum 2007

In any case, enough had fallen by the fifteenth century for Renaissance builders to carry away the ruin's travertine blocks to construct their own palazzi, whose designs often imitated the Colosseum's columns and arcades.

Rome: The Marvels and the Menace Rowland, Ingrid D. 2007

Only in Rome, perhaps, could a protester threaten to jump from one of the Colosseum's venerable arches and see a huge cushion spread beneath him by a motley group of firemen and the latter-day gladiators who stroll around the monument and offer to pose (for a fee) for tourist photographs.

Rome: The Marvels and the Menace Rowland, Ingrid D. 2007

But the main event, for viewers as well as for the fictionalized Verus, comes when we finally arrive in the Colosseum's arena.

Television/DVD: Everyone Loves a Bloodbath 2004

Suzuki, ranked just 110th, had 13 aces at Ariake Colosseum's main court, where the roof was closed because a typhoon barely missed the Japanese capital.

USATODAY.com - Nalbandian loses, Kournikova wins in Moscow 2002

A new documentary gives life to the gladiator Verus, described by the poet Martial as fighting in the Colosseum's inaugural games in A.D.

Television/DVD: Everyone Loves a Bloodbath 2004

Although it covers only one-seventh of the Colosseum's arena, the stage took more than five years to complete.

Sophocles at the Colosseum 2000