The evolution of the Roman infantry sword weapons reveals a lot about the responsive ... Instead, soldiers likely adopted the same equipment used by Ancient Greek hoplites. This took the form ...

Roman gladiator fresco, Pompeii, Italy While some ancient written sources describe these various types of gladiator, mosaics and frescoes capture their appearance. One such fresco was recently ...

Ridley Scott was eager for his movie "Gladiator II" to be as faithful as possible to real history, but he's blunt on whether ...