When news broke earlier this year that 30 officers at a Los Padrinos juvenile detention facility were charged with facilitating gladiator fights between youth inmates, it evoked scenes straight out of ...
Researchers have found proof that Roman gladiators fighting lions is not just fiction, but it actually happened in real life. A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York, UK, is proof that a man ...
The scientists have discovered a “fragmented bear skull” that bears the markings of a gladiator’s weapon. What many people know about Roman gladiator fights comes from Hollywood movie scenes. However, ...
Think of the ancient Roman Empire and Julius Caesar, Mount Vesuvius and Russell Crowe likely come to mind. We’re taught so much about this great civilisation – yet will never truly know what it was ...