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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...