Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...

While the man had been buried at a military cemetery and was assumed to be a soldier or an enslaved gladiator, his DNA was ...

It's thought there were thousands of individual gladiators in Roman history ... Julius Caesar crossed the channel with around 10,000 soldiers. They landed at a Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

“I see a gladiator ... ArchPro graphic shows Roman campsites slowly shooting up around the memorial. “This monumental arch,” says Neubauer, “towered above the soldiers, always reminding ...

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 ...

The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the ...

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 ...