A man identified as English tourist Ivan Danailov Dimitrov, 27, was seen in a video carving "Ivan+Haley 23" into the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum.

In previous centuries, people wrote their names on the Colosseum walls to show they'd visited. Some writings date back 2,000 years, experts have said.

In 2014, a Russian tourist who carved his initials onto the Colosseum was handed a four-month suspended sentence and fined €20,000 (£17,000).

He caused shockwaves around the world when he was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum – and grinning when he realized he was caught on camera. Now ...

Alfonsina Russo, the director of the Colosseum, which was inaugurated in the first century A.D., said that the wall Ivan defaced was built during a mid-19th century restoration.

A tourist carved his girlfriend's name into the walls of Rome's Colosseum on June 23, as seen in a viral video, drawing outrage from Italy's culture minister. (Video: Reuters) ...

A tourist has apologised for scratching a wall of the Colosseum in Rome. At the end of June, the man from England had used a key to scratch the names of himself and his girlfriend into the masonry ...