My favorite aspect of “Gladiator II” is the presence of Derek ... His homeland is attacked by troops under the command of Roman general Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal) in A.D. 200.

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to contain the remains of gladiators. The individual's bones exhibited ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man ...

Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first physical evidence of a Roman-era battle between a gladiator and a nonhuman animal anywhere in ...

Analysis: The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite ... England, on the other hand, was well under Roman occupancy. As such, the remains of Roman settlements are littered ...

Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society ... to be beaten and to be killed by the sword.” And their lives were far from ...

“I see a gladiator school.” Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire along the Danube ... by young Commodus at the start of the swords-and-sandals epic Gladiator.