Although not as entertaining as its predecessor, “Gladiator II” offers a window into one of the most puzzling and outrageous ...

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

Taking place roughly 20 years after the events of the first movie, the sequel is set around 211 CE and stars Paul Mescal, ...

Republican ideals have evolved over millennia, shaping governance across the globe. Modern republics continue to adapt, but ...

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

Audiences are returning to the Colosseum with the release of Gladiator II, the latest in a subgenre that dates back to ...

THE new adrenaline-fuelled blockbuster movie Gladiator II shows the Colosseum as a brutal bloodbath where Roman fighters were ...

Gladiators depicted in a painting by Jean Léon Gérôme. Credit: Jean Léon Gérôme / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Roman gladiatorial games were a far cry from the Olympic and theatrical pursuits ...

It was founded in the ninth century BC by the Phoenicians, an ancient, Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of ...

And his latest, Gladiator II, has already drawn the ire of historians. Details like a rhino ridden by a gladiator and sharks munching on unlucky combatants in the Colosseum have been raising eyebrows ...