An American tourist's visit to the Colosseum in Rome took a turn for the terrifying after the man impaled himself on a fence ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

“He also brought in people on ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there ... from Pompeii. The scenes in Gladiator 2 that depict ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

With just a couple days left for Gladiator ... post-credits scene. The story follows Lucius, who, after witnessing Maximus’ death at the hands of his uncle, must now face the Colosseum as ...

Film fans are only just realising part of an iconic scene in 2000's Gladiator was in fact ... Maximus succumbs to his wounds in the in the Colosseum . Despite his death, the wheat field scene ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...