Key Takeaways Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator ...

Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the Archaeology, ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Gladiators reenacted fights in the amphitheatre of the ancient Roman city of Carnuntum whose archaeological remains stretch over 10 square kilometers (3.86 square miles) in eastern ...

The discovery helps us understand the “spectacle culture” of ancient Rome. Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a brutal clash between a lion and a gladiator in one of England’s most iconic ...