The practice of having gladiators fight to the death in an amphitheater where enthusiastic crowds gather to watch is an ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. Among such records, some depicted so-called beast hunts, in which gladiators were pitted against predators ...

Who were the Roman gladiators? A new exhibition touring the U.K. in 2025 delves into the identity of these brave performers.

A gladiator arena recently found in the Swiss town Kaiseraugst in December 2021 may be the youngest Roman amphitheaters ever recorded.

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny.

Bloodthirsty roman spectators arriving to watch gladiators fight for their lives might have enjoyed a refreshing cup of wine or purchased a souvenir in the arena, researchers claim. With the help o… ...

Selfie-stick-waving influencers may feel like they are breaking new ground, but did Roman gladiators beat them to it by more than 2,000 years? Making it big on Instagram and TikTok promises income ...

Just like spectators at modern-day sporting events, people who attended ancient Roman gladiator fights would have gotten hungry and might have even wanted to shop for little souvenirs ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators fought animals in Roman amphitheaters, new research shows.

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator.

In 72 BC Spartacus and his army marched north towards Gaul (the Roman term for a region covering France, the Low Countries and northern Italy). They fought off a series of attacks from Roman forces, ...