Aerial photography identified ... “confirmed for the first time that gladiators could recover from harsh, demanding training in a fully equipped Roman bath.” Marcus Aurelius was a philosopher ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...

Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate ...

Even though more than 100 gladiator schools were constructed throughout the Roman Empire ... techniques like ground-penetrating radar, aerial photography, and magnetometer surveys.

Gladiator tells the story of Maximus Decimus Meridius (Crowe), a Roman general who joins the ... script constantly changed ...