While workers prepared the site for a new boathouse near Basel, they uncovered a relic from the past—an enormous Roman amphitheater that once roared with the sounds of gladiator fights and ...

Successful gladiators were the ... to take their chances in the arena. Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization.

"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks ...

These songs feature in our KS2 musical Rocking Romans! which includes: a performance script as either a Word document or pdf audio of all the songs to download (as either vocal or backing tracks ...

During gladiatorial games in the arena, a vast network of man ... that annihilated enemies of the state. The gladiator embodied the cardinal Roman quality of virtus, or manliness, whether as ...

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

With Mercury's help we visit different arenas for Roman 'entertainment'. Poetry and drama are performed in special half-circle theatres built of stone. The song 'Into the arena' reflects the ...

“I see a gladiator school ... “Nearly every other Roman outpost had a single arena,” he says. “In Carnuntum, one belonged to the military camp and served the legionnaires.

Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill ... Not only were gladiators pitted against each other, but gladiators fighting animals and animal ...