Several lines of evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggest that female gladiators did exist in ...

W elcome to a new monthly bonus edition of Plot Twist. I think about ancient Rome more than most (so much so that I’ve ...

Paul Mescal portrays a Roman gladiator in "Gladiator II," a sequel to the 2000 film "Gladiator" starring Russell Crowe. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI But I'm most interested in how the two films ...

Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...

Archaeologists have discovered what might be the last Roman gladiator arena ever built. And it is a long way from the capital. In December 2021, a group of archaeologists supervising a boathouse ...

Divers have discovered a 2,000-year-old copper knife handle, carved in the shape of a tiny gladiator, in an English ...

(NEWSER) – You'd figure a typical Roman gladiator to be a real meat-and-potatoes guy, right? You'd be figuring wrong—at least if you were talking about gladiators from the city of Ephesus.

You'd figure a typical Roman gladiator to be a real meat-and-potatoes guy, right? You'd be figuring wrong—at least if you were talking about gladiators from the city of Ephesus. Anthropologists have ...

LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle shaped like a gladiator that was discovered in northern England will go on public display for the first time, the charity English ...

With the premier of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II fast approaching, English Heritage has made the timely announcement that it will display a Roman knife handle cast in the shape of a gladiator. The ...