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If you love impressive Roman historic sites, you’re in for a treat in this southern French city…. Located in the Occitanie ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman arena in Turkey that was 'just like Rome's Colosseum' and would have hosted gladiator fights for some 20,000 spectators. The find, a national first, was ...
It tells a similar tale — a soldier, sold into slavery, becomes a gladiator in the Roman arena. This time out, it's Paul Mescal whose prowess in the coliseum earns him fame that threatens Rome's ...
All we have to do is look to the Roman gladiatorial arena for traces of the very first Delos. Actress Evan Rachel Wood arrives at the Premiere of HBO's 'Westworld' at TCL Chinese Theatre on ...
But in its heyday, it was the fourth-largest city in the Roman Empire, and it was home to as many as 50,000 people, including, for a few years in the second century A.D., the philosopher-emperor ...
Although their existence is often overlooked, female gladiators fought, died and could even win their freedom from the Roman arena. In films like Gladiator, the depiction of Roman fighters within ...
Archaeologists have discovered what might be the last Roman gladiator arena ever built. And it is a long way from the capital. In December 2021, a group of archaeologists supervising a boathouse ...
The 1,800-year-old arena was discovered on the rolling hills of the ancient city of Mastaura, in Turkey's western Aydın Province. Its large central area, where "bloody shows" once took place, has ...
The oval-shaped amphitheater was built in an abandoned Roman quarry that had been in use until late antiquity. This clue, combined with the discovery of a coin dating to between A.D. 337 and 341 ...
An MMA spectacular comes to Pula Arena in Croatia. FNC 7 FNC 7 PULA, Croatia, July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It's been more than 2,000 years since warriors fought for their lives inside such a ...