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

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 ...

The man, believed to have been a Roman soldier or gladiator, had 25 percent of his genes from Scandinavian ancestry, according to the DNA analysis. This discovery suggests that Scandinavian ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Soccer field renovations near Vienna, Austria recently revealed a significant—if grim—archeological find: a mass grave dating back to the first century CE and Roman empire. The gravesite ...

“I see a gladiator school.” Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire along the Danube and into present-day Germany, the future emperor Tiberius reached this spot and ...

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 ...

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 ...

After being captured, the bold Coax takes a Roman ... young soldier long to seek revenge when the two meet again. Coax is soon imprisoned, sold into slavery, and forced to fight as a gladiator.