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

The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5-million sponsorship deal with Airbnb that aims to promote ...

“I see a gladiator school ... found in 1562 on one of the ancient slabs incised with Rome’s city plan. Fortunately for Neubauer’s team, the Romans tended to construct new settlements ...

Each gladiator fight could technically be to the death, although it was more usual for a fight to go on until one submitted, heavily wounded. In ancient Rome, gladiators wore heavy protective ...

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

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 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine ... Laura Itzkowitz The site of many bloody gladiatorial fights, the Colosseum (Colosseo in Italian ...