Gladiator reenactors pose amid Roman-era ruins in Arles ... Not all experts agree that this 2,000-year-old statue is of a female gladiator, but female fighters did exist. Photograph by Remi ...

That’s about as funny as you can get. Alt-right Roman Statue avatar guys, those who adore the Roman Empire for its virtuosity and lasting impact on Western civilization, think the most Roman of ...

It’s not hard to conjure the image of the Roman gladiator. He probably looks like ... the London gladiatrix and roughly 580 miles away, a statue of a fighting noblewoman was discovered in ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

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 in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering a tomb for one of these ancient warriors that lay hidden for 2,000 years. The findings offer ...

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 ...

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...