When you think of gladiators, you probably picture men with swords. But in Roman arenas, the opponents gladiators faced weren ...

Analysis of a bear skull found at a Roman amphitheater east of Belgrade reveals that while the bear was brown, its fate was ...

An elevator used to lift lions and other animals into Rome's Colosseum has been restored by experts. The lift was originally used to carry the animals into the arena's famed gladiator fights in the ...

Researchers have discovered traces of food and animal bones beneath the stadium. Gregorio Borgia ASSOCIATED PRESS An exploration of ancient sewers beneath the Colosseum, the world’s most recognizable ...

Visited by millions every year, the Colosseum has already been vandalized four times in 2023. Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 A video has surfaced showing a tourist carving into ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...