Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...

Here’s a look back at the history of American Gladiators. American Gladiators first launched in 1989 and ran for over 200 ...

Popular media, such as the 2000 film "Gladiator," often depict Roman gladiators in gory battles that don't end until at least one of the fighters is slain. But in real life, did gladiators really ...

Have you been watching the return of the TV phenomenon Gladiators? Each week we witness four eager contenders taking on the mighty gladiators. While many of us are seeing the program for the first ...

A newly unearthed tomb of a Roman gladiator in Turkey contains the bones of 12 unidentified people but lacks his remains. The find, researchers from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism said, ...

The 38-year-old may be best known to TV viewers as Fire from the Gladiators reboot, but before that she was an Olympian and Commonwealth star. And she brings with her an impressive sporting ...

One thing that certainly did not happen was a warrior mounted on a rhinoceros (even a non-computer-generated one) charging at a group of gladiators. However, there is a record of a rhino at the ...

T he upcoming release of Gladiator II could spell Oscar history for one of its biggest draws, 2-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. Gladiator II is the highly-anticipated ...