Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.”In this week’s column, we’re revisiting a campy ...

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of ...

What makes a nation? Kings? Heroes? Laws? Ridley Scott presents a stirring tale of unabashed romanticism to tell us that a ...

Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...

A rare knife handle in the shape of a gladiator has been discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England, shining a new ...

The film follows the son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus who has been living under a new identity to escape Roman politics.

The epic film released in theatres on November 15. The film delivers great action, but lacks emotional resonance.

Archaeologists in Poland unearthing a German soldier's World War II grave discovered ancient artifacts inside of the same ...

A ship-to shore invasion with fleets of Roman battleships fighting with trebuchets and thousands of archers. A naval duel to ...

Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...