The battered skull of a brown bear discovered near a Roman amphitheater in Serbia reveals that the wild animal had been kept in captivity for years and was fighting off an infection when it died ...

Ridley Scott may have been ridiculed for portraying gladiators riding rhinos and scrapping with sharks in his latest film. But it seems the real Roman fighters did pick fights with a colourful array ...

The fossilized remains of a brown bear were discovered near the Viminacium amphitheater in Serbia, a Roman gladiator. The male brown bear suffered a fracture to its frontal bone, which resulted in an ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...

We can see him. We can see his expressions. -As a way of projecting authority over the Roman people, many classes of gladiators were inspired by the ancient enemies of Rome. But by the time the ...

The release of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” in 2025 plunged audiences back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, “Gladiator.” As someone who ...