The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...
Romans Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Dinosaurs 95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded ...
The Roman Empire is famous for its arenas like the Colosseum where gladiators fought each other in gory skirmishes. But were any of these gladiators ever women? Several lines of evidence, including ...
ROME, Italy — The Colosseum may be the most famous landmark in Rome. The massive amphitheater was built nearly 2,000 years ago. "The Colosseum represents mostly our city. It's the true symbol we have ...
The world of gladiators is one of the most thrilling and brutal aspects of ancient Rome, filled with tales of courage, skill, and spectacle. While male gladiators dominate most historical accounts, a ...
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In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, ...
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Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus.” For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the ...