At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...
I. Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society. Some of the earliest were prisoners of war, who fought wearing their own culture's ...
Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...
"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks ...
The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.
Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 begins with a similar note as his 2000 movie, where Hanno (Paul Mescal), who is the son of the legendary gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe) and Lucille (Connie Nielsen), lose ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Roman gladiator’s tomb in ancient Liternum shedding light on burial customs and daily life in ...