In ancient Rome, gladiators took part in one of the most bloodthirsty spectacles known to history. Depicted in Ridley Scott's ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Liternum Archaeological Park in Campania, southern Italy, have uncovered two ornate funerary enclosures, one of which belonged to a gladiator and bears an ...

Children’s sketches of violent scenes of gladiators and hunters battling ... They show that even children in ancient times were exposed to extreme violence. “It does not seem to be a problem ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died, his warriors would make a blood sacrifice to his ...

"We know from the inscription on the tomb that it was first used for gladiators," said Sinan Mimaroglu, the leader of the excavation and an associate professor and art historian at Hatay Mustafa ...

One of the graves found in Liternum Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'area metropolitana di Napoli Archaeological excavations in the ancient Roman colony ... inscription ...

In ancient Rome, gladiators took part in one of the most bloodthirsty spectacles known to history. Depicted in Ridley Scott's epic films, the armed combatants engaged in violent public battles ...