Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman-era knife handle shaped like a gladiator in the River Tyne near Corbridge Roman Town, located along Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England. Believed to be ...

ROMAN Gladiators were not at all ripped like the Hollywood heart-throbs who play them — but were actually “quite fat”, a ...

Researchers have found proof that Roman gladiators fighting lions is not just fiction, but it actually happened in real life. A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York, UK, is proof that a man ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion. The skeleton was excavated and ...

Fearsome Roman gladiators dueling for the entertainment of a roaring amphitheater looms large in the cultural imagination, perhaps now more than ever with Ridley Scott’s blockbuster Gladiator sequel, ...