A flood in Apollosa, Italy, revealed limestone blocks carved with reliefs of battling gladiators that were part of a monument ...
1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...
The Colchester vase, crafted around A.D. 175, on display at Colchester Castle Museum in the U.K. Vivid depictions of battling gladiators on a clay vase are the first concrete evidence that these ...
(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...
Archaeologists in Turkey say they have discovered a Roman-era gladiator burial ground in Anazarbus (modern Anavarza) in the country’s southern Adana province. If true, this would be one of only a few ...