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 ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

The craziest trilogy fight in the history of combat sports came when bitter rivals Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr trained as gladiators then fought one another with swords, shields and maces in ...

“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 ...

Charles and Camilla marvelled at the near 2,000-year-old Colosseum on the eve of their 20th wedding anniversary.

King Charles III watched a colourful flypast with Italy's president Tuesday and laid a wreath for fallen soldiers on the ...

As control over the mountains changed hands through the centuries, Christian saints replaced the Hellenistic-Roman ... Though ancient historians say that Selge could wield a formidable fighting ...