Their analysis revealed a story of gladiators in Roman Britain — a multilayered story encapsulated by a 9-inch tall vase. That's right folks, the latest research on the #Colchester Vase has made ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first ... gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to such a civilized and sophisticated ...

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“It’s the only evidence of a Roman arena gladiator combat actually being staged in Britain,” he said. “There are no written descriptions. The vase is such high quality that there’s been ...

New research on an ancient vase discovered in England in 1853 suggests, for the first time, that gladiator battles took place in Roman Britain. Gladiator battles were a form of Roman entertainment ...

It’s been more than two decades since the Ridley Scott blockbuster Gladiator became a cultural phenomenon. Now, a long-discussed sequel to the Roman epic, is finally coming to fruition. According to ...

In 1853, a Roman vase was found being used as a container for ashes in a grave outside Roman Colchester. Dating to the later second century AD, it depicted four gladiators with their names ...

Could he have been a gladiator? Gladiators are one of the emblematic images of the roman world . Massive amphitheatres, depictions of gladiators in Roman art and literature and more recent ...

a Roman vase was found being used as a container for ashes in a grave outside Roman Colchester. Dating to the later second century AD, it depicted four gladiators with their names scratched into the ...