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 ...

It's thought there were thousands of individual gladiators in Roman history ... Initially, they built shrines, but these expanded in time to include spas and thermal baths with doctors in attendance.

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator ... Around the same time, a 2,000-year ...

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

Looking at the bath complex, Neubauer says, “confirmed for the first time that gladiators could recover from harsh, demanding training in a fully equipped Roman bath.” Marcus Aurelius was a ...

However, researchers identified it as a gladiator burial ground thanks ... can shed more light on life in the surrounding Roman colony at the time. “It will be possible to achieve important ...

At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

Its presence in Liternum suggests that the city was home to gladiators who ... study of the sociocultural context of the time. The discovery also raises new questions about the spatial organization of ...