Rebecca Winke’s first visit to Rome was a coup de foudre, and her affection for the Eternal City has only grown over 25 years ...

Kat Bergeron, an award-winning veteran reporter and feature writer who specializes in Gulf Coast history and sense of place, is retired from the Sun Herald. She writes this Gulf Coast Chronicles ...

The Colosseum, one of the greatest architectural and engineering feats of the ancient world, stands as a symbol of Roman ingenuity. But beyond its iconic facade, there lies a complex web of ...

In ancient Rome, crowds filled coliseums to watch gladiators fight brutal battles—many to their death. As these warriors ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles ... in the making has provided the first proof that gladiators did indeed fight animals. The discovery by a ...

New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena ... proof that gladiators in Britain ...

Gladiators also were pitted against animals. While there are depictions of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts ... as to his suspected demise in the arena. "Here we can see puncture ...

The first physical evidence that gladiators fought animals during the ... "That sense of spectacle and arena activities was prevalent across the Roman Empire and that was, in a way, how the ...

Multiplayer Arena Battles ... the game’s arenas mirror ancient Roman architecture with cinematic flair. Bringing Gladiators to the Digital Age The journey began during the COVID-19 pandemic ...