Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile-long stone barrier built on the northwest edge of the Roman Empire, archaeologists have ...

British actor Joseph Quinn portrays Emperor Geta in Gladiator II. Quinn is best known for his role as Eddie Munson in ...

She adds humorously that even though Candid Camera, a long-running comedy show that premiered in 1948, is often identified as ...

For archaeologists in Germany, the worn-out cliche that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure came true in the most literal sense. Archaeologists excavated a playground in Haltern am See as part ...

The Vatican’s inquiry into the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) – sometimes known as the “Sodalicio” – is ...

Certainly a big draw for fans is the fact that "Gladiator II" was also ... Just to put that in perspective, 900 sestersi is the annual salary for a Roman soldier. So you're getting two years' worth of ...

Although it was only a small fort, it was used by auxiliary soldiers. They assisted in the control ... and modern media has ...

While many of the reviewers who got an early look at the follow-up to the 2001 best picture winner said it's largely a rehash, most of them were dazzled by its battles and epic scope.

It’s a Saturday-night epic of tony escapism. But is it great? A movie to love the way that some of us love "Gladiator"? No and no. It’s ultimately a mere shadow of that movie. But it’s just diverting ...

Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the highly anticipated Gladiator II, proving there's no historical fixation quite like it. This long-awaited sequel is an ...

Released in the last year of the 20 th century, Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” paid tribute to Hollywood’s past by embracing the ...