Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society ... He wore a large bronze helmet adorned with a fish fin on top and feathers on ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

In the relief, the familiar domes of two combat helmets lay forgotten ... Severus in 200 C.E., blotted from Roman history, and overlooked in both “Gladiator II” and its predecessor, it seems ...

Back then rich Romans ... themselves, gladiators formed a close-knit brotherhood and would club together to pay for the funerals of fallen comrades. The Colosseum in Rome: History's most famous ...