While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., archaeologists recently uncovered drawings of an intense gladiator battle on a ...

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

Many portraits and images of the fighters still survive and graffiti about gladiators was found on the walls of Pompeii. The gladiators lived in special schools where they trained for their ...

When Vesuvius erupted on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, some 2,600 inhabitants perished in Pompeii alone (a plaster ... e Caserta/Field Museum, A bronze gladiator helmet with a visor and sculpted ...