Successful gladiators were the ... so keen on watching men and women fight to the death. Ritualized, public violence had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries.

A special touring exhibition dedicated to Roman gladiator combat, supported by the British Museum, has opened in Dorchester, ...

Headless skeletons, feral bears and female fighters – a new British Museum show revolutionises our understanding of life in ...

When you think of gladiators, you probably imagine ancient Rome and huge crowds gathered ... which features a pair of gladiators fighting. Tests have now proven that the so called Colchester ...

In Gladiator II, a gladiator rides on a rhinoceros in one fight. In real ancient Rome, soldiers might have brought back animals from the places they conquered. More likely, the animals hunted in ...

These were more than life-and-death entertainment bouts: gladiators weren’t simply celebrities of ancient Rome. Instead ... were slaves who were forced to fight, but some were freeborn people ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator ...