The artifacts and artworks on display paint a refreshingly broad picture of Roman life in the northern reaches of the Empire.

It’s hard to understand how people in ancient Rome could sit in the stands of an amphitheater and watch someone get beaten to death for sport. The ancient spectacle of gladiator fights perhaps was not ...

La Brújula Verde reported that the literary history of brown bears is now backed up with a bone. Specifically, the ...

With Gladiator II now in theaters, archaeological discoveries reveal how Hollywood’s warriors compare to history. Even though this Roman gladiator's helmet was used during ceremonial occasions, it ...

Both Gladiator and its sequel, Gladiator 2, center around the dream of Rome, begging the question of what exactly this dream entails. The dream of Rome is first mentioned by Marcus Aurelius in the ...

The following contains minor spoilers for "Gladiator II." Save for a few wisps of time-worn text and a bit of sharp-edged stone, little is left on this earth that tells the gladiatrix’s story. Thought ...