In honor of today’s release of the major motion picture and guaranteed box office smash Wicked, here is my non-exhaustive ...

Ridley Scott gets dragged for historical inaccuracies, but did product endorsements actually make their way into the ...

Much like modern-day football hooliganism, gladiator fandom could be weaponised in intercommunal violence. In a 59BC ...

With Gladiator II now in theaters, archaeological discoveries reveal how Hollywood’s warriors compare to history.

And if you look closely at some of the walls, bright red graffiti pops out exclaiming that Julius was here. Of course, the ...

A cast of two corpses recovered from the ruins of Pompeii, now on display as part of the “A Day In Pompeii” exhibit at the Discovery Place Science Museum in North Carolina. Courtesy of Ken Thomas ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Selfie-stick-waving influencers may feel like they are breaking new ground, but did Roman gladiators beat them to it by more ...

It was AD 79 when the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under layers of ash during a two-day tempest. Today, the 66-hectare archaeological site offers visitors a snapshot of daily ...

In America, graffiti is often a staple of disadvantaged communities, associated with crime and poverty, and generally unwanted. But in some places, where the culture and atmosphere differs, graffiti ...

In June, a visitor from Kazakstan was spotted writing on the wall of Pompeii’s House of Ceii. And there are plenty more instances across ... The pair found themselves wanted by Italian police after ...