According to a statement from English Heritage, the gladiator figurine was once attached to a folding knife. Two divers ...

Travel back a couple thousands of centuries earlier to ancient ... and Roman games as well as Roman theater and other forms of entertainment. Not anyone could sign up to be a gladiator: as with ...

Fearsome Roman gladiators dueling ... But who were the gladiators? A major new exhibition “Gladiators of Britain” will use ancient objects to bring to life the violent spectacle of ...

Researchers have identified bite marks, most likely from a lion, on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators in England. This may not seem ...

This tiny Roman ... profession, gladiators could become huge celebrities.” McIntosh notes that there has always been a fascination—and even “sex appeal”—connected to the ancient fighters.