The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5-million ...

An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a scene of an execution known in Latin as 'damnatio ad bestias' which translates to 'condemnation to beasts.' (Will Dunham/Reuters) Gladiator fights were a ...

By A.D. 150, the cost of gladiator fights was spiraling out of control as political hopefuls sponsored ever more spectacular games to outdo their rivals. To rein in spending, Roman emperor Marcus ...

Most had been decapitated after death, a practice possibly associated with gladiator burials in Roman Britain. Written records and artworks have documented fights between armed performers and ...

other than Roman art depicting the fights. The recent findings, publicized in the journal PLOS One, analyze a puncture wound that was found on the pelvis of a gladiator buried in a York cemetery.

While the Romans documented fights between humans as well ... highlight the wide-ranging effects of the Roman Empire across England, showing that gladiator arenas that featured animals imported ...

meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator show. While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs.

other than Roman art depicting the fights. The recent findings, publicized in the journal PLOS One, analyze a puncture wound that was found on the pelvis of a gladiator buried in a York cemetery.

Although images of fights against beasts have been found ... the fight scenes in Ridley Scott's Gladiator II. —Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey Mike Bishop, an independent ...