Each gladiator fight could technically be to the death ... this was called 'Exe ceaster' and a merger of this eventually gave ...

Once home to Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famed Roman general who defeated Hannibal, the former port city is ... Africanus and—as researchers recently discovered—at least one gladiator. According to ...

Although Gladiator 2 hasn’t been as big of a hit ... returns to Rome after years in the wilderness. Captured by Roman forces led by General Marcus Acacius, he is thrust into the gladiatorial ...

Roman historian Suetonius records that the emperor Domitian made female gladiators fight at night ... A fight in which defeat meant automatic death for the loser was known as sine missio, which ...

Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate ...

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 ...

Each gladiator fight could technically be to ... a merger of this eventually gave rise to Exeter. 75 - 77AD - Romans defeated the last resistant tribes, making all Britain Roman.