Roman gladiators were not physically fit but rather were “quite fat”, a historian has said. Gladiators have gained a ...

Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial ...

ROME, Italy — The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Airbnb that aims to ...

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...

You don’t need a time machine or a transatlantic flight to step inside ancient Rome ’s most infamous arena. Starting on ...

Tales of gladiators going head-to-head with ferocious lions in ancient Rome's coliseum are legendary. Scenes of such deadly combat have been portrayed in stories, paintings, and mosaics (a Man versus ...