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).

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...

American tourist climbs over fence at Colosseum, impales himself on spike Rome’s Colosseum, pictured in August 2023, was the site of a gruesome incident late last week.

Vandalism at the Colosseum, which was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1980 on the 2,000th anniversary of its completion, includes recent incidents as well as some from antiquity.

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.

Italian officials have vowed to find and punish the tourist who carved “Ivan+Haley 23” on the the wall of the Colosseum in Rome, a crime that has resulted in hefty fines in the past.

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.

American who filmed tourist carving name in Colosseum 'dumbfounded' as hunt for culprit intensifies Ryan Lutz says he took out his phone to film the man because he was so shocked at what he was doing ...

A tourist, who was filmed etching his and his girlfriend's name into the Colosseum, has apologised to the Mayor of Rome and claimed he did not realise how old the historic site was. On June 27, a ...

Rome’s Colosseum is the city’s—and arguably Italy’s—most iconic and historic monument. It may also be the country’s biggest cash cow. The nearly-2,000 year old amphitheater sits in the ...

The Colosseum, he pointed out, had been built for rough-and-tumble entertainment. He added that gladiator games were already tourist draws in other historical arenas, like one in Nimes, France.