Laura Itzkowitz is a Rome-based freelance journalist who thinks about the Roman Empire all the time. She has visited the Colosseum in the morning, in the evening after the crowds have left ...

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo ...

Rome's 2000-year-old Colosseum remains the ... which includes entrance to the Colosseum and Roman Forum. The Hill—which has been called ‘the first nucleus of the Roman Empire’—is filled ...