“People are often surprised by the fact that we only have one description, in a poem from the end of the first century AD, of ...

Sharks? Maybe not. But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the ...

With your neck, your sides, your hard, gladiator’s body: you drained down enough wine at Hippia’s wedding that you had to throw it all up in plain sight of the Roman people the next day.” But apart ...

When most people think of Egypt, their minds inevitably wander to the Pyramids of Giza or the temples of Luxor. While these ...

Researchers found psychotropic substances, alcohol, and saliva in a vessel shaped like Bes, an Egyptian god of childbirth and ...

Gladiator II is great entertainment, but Ridley Scott missed the opportunity to tap into the provocative true story of when the movie is set.

Ridley Scott's longtime production designer Arthur Max tells IndieWire about making the world of 'Gladiator' even bigger for ...

For a month now, the coastal city has been a shadow of itself. Those who stayed fear for their city as much as for their ...

Without giving away too much of the plot of Ridley Scott’s new epic Gladiator II, the sequel to the beloved first installment ...

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the ...

As should be abundantly clear after “Napoleon,” “Robin Hood,” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott is interested in history as a vehicle for studying characters and/or huge volleys of flaming arrows.