The man, believed to have been a Roman soldier or gladiator, had 25 percent of his genes from Scandinavian ancestry, according to the DNA analysis. This discovery suggests that Scandinavian ...
New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact, which will ...
The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas. In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash.