DNA analysis reveals the unique genetic story of the Piceni people, a mysterious civilization that thrived in Italy before ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

Long before the rise of Rome, the Italian peninsula teemed with several different cultures, one of the most intriguing being ...

Cold water therapy was popular among ancient Greeks, and this is the reason they constructed elaborate bathhouses for ...

Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people. Many of the ...

To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.

During the summer of 2020, archaeologists found the remains of an arena from the Roman era in Turkey. The arena must have ...

Fights also included staged hunts, and it’s conceivable that gladiators rode exotic wildlife. In Gladiator II, a gladiator ...

The country is home to thousands of years’ worth of antiquities. Some have already been damaged or destroyed in the war, ...

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.” ...

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