While gladiators may have used unique weapons, they also used implements of war that were more familiar throughout the Roman world. The foremost of these was the gladius, a type of short sword ...

This marked the beginning of the Viking Age — and, seemingly, the influx of Scandinavian DNA into Britain. However, a recent study of a Roman gladiator buried in York has challenged this assumption.

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A special touring exhibition dedicated to Roman gladiator combat, supported by the British Museum, has opened in Dorchester, Dorset. The Dorset Museum & Art Gallery will have some rare artifacts of ...

A NEW exhibition on ‘Gladiators of Britain’ has opened at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition has been brought to life by a professional partnership of the British Museum and Colchester and ...

Washington also stars a manipulative power broker, Macrinus, in the film, while Pascal plays Roman General Marcus Acacius, who is married to Lucilla. Joseph Quinn also stars in Gladiator II as ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator ... long engravings of gladiator swords (the ‘gladii’ from which ...

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It’s been more than two decades since the first Gladiator movie hit theaters ... The film followed Maximus (Crowe), a Roman army general who seeks to avenge the loss of his family against ...

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...