While archaeologists have long been unearthing mass-produced memorabilia featuring the fierce battles of ancient Roman ...
While the man had been buried at a military cemetery and was assumed to be a soldier or an enslaved gladiator, his DNA was not entirely Roman or British. Instead, the researchers found that he had ...
Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...
The strangest volunteer gladiator was a Roman Emperor. His name was Emperor ... opponents he was bound to beat – such as wounded soldiers, or random crowd members. IX. Gladiators’ popularity ...
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 ...