Less violent than the gladiators, chariot racing was still an extreme, dangerous sport, in which drivers could die. The teams attracted fierce passions from their supporters. The Circus Maximus ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — Phil Caskey’s 9th grade World Studies class at Morgantown High School is currently in the middle of its Rome Studies unit, and is keeping things interesting by ...

For the track surface, some 40,000 tons of white sand ... Some 10,000 extras appeared in "Ben-Hur," including 1,500 on any day that the chariot sequence needed a crowd in the stadium grandstands.