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

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 ...

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

Indeed, the $3 million film turns out to have been largely financed by Kenny Krebs, owner of “Concrete Reinforcements Inc.,” and stars his sons, Kameron and Kaulin, who played fullback and wide ...

At the playground, archaeologists found several ancient Roman waste pits, including one with shoe fragments, officials said.