From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

Roman epic, Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe, is widely considered a cinematic classic - but one of the movie's most iconic ...

Gladiator in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Photo courtesy of DreamWorks The story centres on Roman General Maximus (Crowe), betrayed by the new power-obsessed Emperor Commodus (Phoenix), who ...

The study was published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.Archaeologists with the York Archaeological Trust recovered the remains from Driffield Terrace, which they consider to be a gladiator ...

His remains were buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago in what archaeologists believe to be a “gladiator graveyard” — hundreds of miles from Rome — in York, England. The findings highli ...

The evidence comes from a Roman cemetery in York, known as one of the best-preserved gladiator cemeteries in the Roman world. Located along the Roman road leading out of the ancient city of ...

He said archaeologists had only ever found a few confirmed gladiator remains across regions that once formed the Roman Empire. “For years, our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The discovery involves a skeleton found in 2004 at Driffield Terrace in York ...

They were called venatores. They were a specialized type of gladiator who, from the 1st century BC onward, fought in the arenas of the Roman Empire against wild animals. Bears, leopards, lions, and ...