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IX facts about Roman gladiators
I. Gladiators came from many different backgrounds. They largely came from the lower echelons of Roman society. Some of the earliest were prisoners of war, who fought wearing their own culture's ...
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Touring Exhibition Offers Look at Gladiatorial Combat in Roman Britain
A special touring exhibition dedicated to Roman gladiator combat, supported by the British Museum, has opened in Dorchester, ...
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Researchers Identify A Roman Gladiator With Scandinavian Ancestry In York — Hundreds Of Years Before The Vikings Arrived In England
According to a study recently published in the journal Nature, researchers made the discovery about the Roman gladiator as part of a larger project to better understand the “genomic history ...
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There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?
The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas. In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash.