Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

After a history of 668 years, the last known gladiator tournament took place in Rome on 1 January, 404 AD. There are around 240 known arenas spread around the Roman Empire3, an indication of the ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...

From top: Megalopolis explores a modern-day Roman Empire; Gladiator II re-creates Rome in Fort Ricasoli, Malta; Brian F.

A newly unearthed tomb of a Roman gladiator in Turkey contains the bones of 12 unidentified people but lacks his remains. The find sheds more light on the history of a key ancient Mediterranean ...

Ridley Scott had one directive for production designer Arthur Max on “Gladiator II”: “I want to go big. I want to imply the ...

In Turkey, a team of archaeologists discovered the tomb of a Roman gladiator dating back to the third century B.C., with the remains of 12 individuals inside. The tomb was unearthed during the ...

Next month sees the release of ­Gladiator II in cinemas ... My own school, the Ludus Magnus, is the largest in Rome and is imperially owned. Built under Emperor Domitian at the close of the ...

The Academy Award-winning actor portrays Macrinus in Ridley Scott’s new epic, which premieres in theaters November 22.