At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an extensive necropolis that contained a tomb full of gladiator history.

Dress a gladiator for battle in the Roman arena of death. Your choice of weapons and armour will decide whether or not he is victorious. Will the emperor grant your gladiator his freedom ...

This object arrived at Piddington from Gaul or Rome and may have been brought back as a souvenir from the games.A finely detailed late 2nd-3rd century AD Roman clasp knife found in the courtyard ...

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 ...

Visit the Colosseum in Rome today, so prominent in both Gladiator movies, and just a few blocks away you’ll find standing the Arch of Titus, showing Roman soldiers carrying away the giant ...

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization ... There were five types of gladiator, each with their own unique weapons.

Once home to Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famed Roman general who defeated Hannibal ... as researchers recently discovered—at least one gladiator. According to a translated statement by ...

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...