Aerial photography identified intriguing forms in a field outside the ancient ... first time that gladiators could recover from harsh, demanding training in a fully equipped Roman bath.” ...

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

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a gladiator's tomb with a marble-etched inscription in an ancient Roman necropolis near Naples.

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

In ancient Rome, gladiators took part in one ... It's thought there were thousands of individual gladiators in Roman history, with the first recorded Roman gladiator games in the 3rd century ...

A 2,000-year-old gladiator tomb has been discovered in a necropolis outside of Naples, Italy. Archaeologists excavating the ...

The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the walls ...

The assembly hall at the ancient Hellenistic city of Stratonikeia, also known as the “City of Gladiators,” is restored to its ...