If there's one thing that's iconic about the Gladiator franchise, it is its many gladiatorial fights—though not all duels are ...

What many people know about Roman gladiator fights comes from Hollywood movie scenes. However, archaeologists and historians ...

Lions and tigers and bears, oh yes! In the dust of an ancient Roman arena in Serbia, archaeologists have uncovered a ...

The bear suffered a fracture to its frontal bone, and there were marks on its teeth from chewing at the bars of a cage.

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 artifacts and artworks on display paint a refreshingly broad picture of Roman life in the northern reaches of the Empire.

The release of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” in 2025 plunged audiences back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, “Gladiator.” As someone who ...