ROME (AP) — The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue ... hosting hunts and gladiator games, until the 6th century. Colleen Barry contributed from Milan.

Successful gladiators were the movie stars ... had been a favorite entertainment of the Romans for centuries. The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died ...

And the Romans didn't sculpt bone-white statues; they painted them using an array of colors. But I'm most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies ...

Gladiatorial games were a vital part of ancient Roman life, and in Pompeii, the amphitheater was a stage for both bloodsport and spectacle. But the violence wasn’t always contained to the arena.

Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

Dress a gladiator for battle in the Roman arena of death. Your choice of weapons and armour will decide whether or not he is victorious. Will the emperor grant your gladiator his freedom ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Roman gladiator’s tomb in ancient Liternum shedding light on burial customs and daily life in ...