1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...
In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also were ...
Maynooth University in Co Kildare says a groundbreaking study led by one of its professors has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The ...
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Archaeological evidence suggests the existence of "Gladiatrix," female gladiators who competed in ancient Rome.
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