Before they could lay the smackdown in the arena, gladiators were professionally trained, combining a physical regimen with an education in the rules of the ring. Gladiator reenactors pose amid ...

WWE has recently seen a sudden influx of young superstars on its roster, signaling that the future of the business is in safe hands.

WWE Superstar R-Truth returned to the company at Money in the Bank and cost John Cena his tag match against Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso.

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were "the marks of battle," caused during a furious but ultimately futile defense of the hillfort against an all-conquering Roman legion. Wheeler's colorful account of an attack on the native ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

During excavations prior to the construction of a residential tower in the Waalfront district of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, municipal archaeologists discovered the foundations of what they believe to ...

Jewish veterans from the Roman army — and not Shimon Bar Kochba — may have initially led the 2nd-century Jewish rebellion against the Romans commonly known as the “Bar Kochba Revolt.” ...

The wild boar, for example, was the emblem of Legio X, another renowned Roman legion. Historical texts link pigs to Roman military rituals The presence of pig jaws in ritual contexts is not entirely ...