Ancient Greek and Roman armies were large and fearsome for their time, but their warfare tactics and leadership during battle ...

The obscene graffiti directed against Caracalla and Geta in Gladiator II then is part of a long tradition of political ...

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the ...

Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people. Many of the ...

A monumental ancient Byzantine church, built during Emperor Justinian's era, has been uncovered in Aquileia, Italy.

During the Roman Empire's more than 500-year run, more than 30 of ancient Rome's 82 emperors were assassinated while in office. Indeed, being the most powerful person in the land was often a death ...

I didn’t have the highest hopes for Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator. Granted, I enjoyed his 2000 Roman epic, but his ...

A rare Roman military shoe called a caliga was unearthed amidst requisite excavations ahead of a construction project in ...

“Gladiator II” is set in Ancient Rome and North Africa, but where was the Ridley Scott epic actually filmed? Like the first ...

Fights also included staged hunts, and it’s conceivable that gladiators rode exotic wildlife. In Gladiator II, a gladiator ...

The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

Tens of thousands of people who had fled the city of Baalbek returned to bombed-out restaurants, flattened apartment ...