Gladiator II star Paul Mescal reveals that ... and Mescal recalls camera operators wearing Roman soldier gear to blend in. Check out Mescal's comments below: In the scenes in the cell, he would ...

Gladiator 2 includes several elements that are taken from real Roman history ... journey to Maximus' from the original movie, as a soldier becomes a gladiator who stands against the corruption ...

Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator II takes ... Hanno (Paul Mescal), a former soldier-turned-slave who is forced into being a gladiator for the entertainment of Roman high society.

The Thracian gladiator Spartacus ... beginning to waver Spartacus stiffened their resolve by crucifying a Roman soldier where all could see. It served "as a visual demonstration to his own ...

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 ...

This may not seem surprising to anyone who's studied ancient Roman texts, or even watched a modern gladiator movie, both of which depict a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

Archaeologists in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering ... spot at the dig site (pictured) as a gladiator tomb thanks to a funerary inscription ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted ...

At last, proof of classical combat between man and beast has been found in the form of a skeleton from a Roman settlement in Britain. It is the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion.