During construction work in a city of central France, archaeologists uncovered a tunnel opening and found a system of ancient Roman passageways. Photos show what remains of the underground structures.

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly ...

England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Westminster, an anti-French covenant. 1555: William of Orange ...

Gladiator II' isn’t quite the prestige film the first one, a best-picture winner, was in 2001. It’s more a swaggering, ...

A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, ...

Along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile-long stone barrier built on the northwest edge of the Roman Empire, archaeologists have ...

The film follows the son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus who has been living under a new identity to escape Roman politics.

Oscar-winning 'Gladiator', Ridley Scott returns to the colosseum sandbox. The end result is difficult to dismiss but still ...

The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...

Historian Professor Ray Laurence casts his expert eye over the details of the just-opened blockbuster sequel.Some 200 ...

The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ... with towers on the bows of the ...