The medallion of a Thraex gladiator, found in Reims. (Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped from original) On the battlefield, the Thracian people used the sica sword to get around large enemy shields ...

In early Roman Britain, the key individuals who were ... have put a series of tiny one-centimetre-long engravings of gladiator swords (the ‘gladii’ from which the term gladiator actually ...

While gladiators may have used unique weapons, they also used implements of war that were more familiar throughout the Roman world. The foremost of these was the gladius, a type of short sword ...

Hoplomachus gladiator Roman bronze statuette. Neues Museum ... Hoplomachus battled with spears and carried his sword in the hand that was holding the parma. Hoplomachus started the fight with his ...

He carried a long, straight sword and a large shield that could ... The strangest volunteer gladiator was a Roman Emperor. His name was Emperor Commodus, who you might recognise from the movie ...

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...

However, a recent study of a Roman gladiator buried in York has challenged this assumption. Using a new method to study DNA, researchers have determined that the Roman — who was buried between the ...

A special touring exhibition dedicated to Roman gladiator combat, supported by the British Museum, has opened in Dorchester, Dorset. The Dorset Museum & Art Gallery will have some rare artifacts of ...