A professor at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, he’s an authority on the first games ... see a gladiator school.” Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire ...

In ancient Rome, gladiators took part in one ... 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 ...

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 ...

The necropolis has illuminated ancient Roman funerary practices, according to the superintendent. “The area is experiencing a particularly fruitful moment in terms of archaeological research ...