A touring exhibition exploring the world of Roman gladiators has opened in Northamptonshire. Northampton Museum & Art Gallery ...

Wakefield Council is launching a new project which will allow people to explore Castleford’s Roman heritage from their own ...

open image in gallery The Hawkedon Helmet - Britain's only surviving piece of Roman gladiator equipment (The Trustees of the British Museum) It's likely therefore that the gladiator who wore it ...

Gladiator reenactors pose amid Roman-era ruins in Arles ... around the ring. The secutor’s helmet was smooth and egg-shaped to prevent it from getting caught on a retiarius’s net.

The scans revealed the two plates were actually “the remains of a Roman helmet” from 1,600 years ago, the museum said. One plate functioned as a “neck guard” and the other as a ...

In October 79 BCE, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius engulfed the vibrant Roman city of ... spotted the helmet at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Fascinated by the seven ...

The stolen artifacts — described by the museum as “archaeological masterpieces” — include the golden helmet of Cotofenesti ... destructive war between the Roman emperor and the Dacian ...

the museum said. However, they were unusual in having more square-shaped features than round, it added. A cheek piece from a Roman helmet was found to be from a type that became customary from the ...

Image The golden helmet of Cotofenesti was among the artifacts stolen from the museum.Credit ... beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire. Skeletons of the Roman Empire: Under ...