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Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

Gladiator II is an efficient-enough remake-cum-sequel, but contains no useful insight into war and empire, finds Lucy Nichols ...

Scientists from Oxford and Warsaw Universities have found new evidence that shifts the timeline regarding the fall of the ...

The knife handle is a testament to how pervasive the gladiator celebrity culture was in the Roman Empire, reaching all the ...

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a population boom.

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient.

Denzel Washington revealed that his same-sex kissing scene was taken out of the final cut of Gladiator II. During a recent ...

These portrayals are enough to make us wonder if any of the real historical figures depicted in these movies was an actual ...

The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of ...