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 ...

with the first recorded Roman gladiator games in the 3rd century BC. What's also unknown is how this individual died, or if he was killed during one of the public battles. Each gladiator fight ...

However, a recent study of a Roman gladiator buried in York has challenged this assumption. Using a new method to study DNA, ...

Archaeologists in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering ... spot at the dig site (pictured) as a gladiator tomb thanks to a funerary inscription ...

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization ... There were five types of gladiator, each with their own unique weapons.

This object arrived at Piddington from Gaul or Rome and may have been brought back as a souvenir from the games.A finely detailed late 2nd-3rd century AD Roman clasp knife found in the courtyard ...

Once home to Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famed Roman general who defeated Hannibal ... as researchers recently discovered—at least one gladiator. According to a translated statement by ...

He is thought to have been born in Thrace (modern day Balkan region) and it has been suggested he was in the Roman army. He was sold into slavery and trained at the gladiatorial school in Capua ...

Researchers identified the burial spot at the dig site (pictured) as a gladiator tomb thanks to a ... the role and memory of these fighters in Roman society,” per a translated statement by ...