This Roman-era relief depicts two female gladiators fighting each other in Halicarnassus, an ancient city in what is now Turkey. . | Credit: Universal History Archive via Getty Images The Roman Empire ...

Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. Spartacus: House of Ashur dropped its first trailer during Saturday's Comic-Con panel, showing off Nick E. Tarabay's return ...

-The famous Roman satirist Juvenal wrote during the 1st Century AD, around the same time as the poet Martial. -Juvenal was also writing at the height of the Roman Empire, and his satires show a ...

Raw Cut has lined up the new documentary Queens of Combat, delving into the hidden story of female gladiators. Set to air in the U.K. and the U.S. later this year, the documentary pieces together ...

Roman lawmakers took the unusual step of forbidding women from fighting as gladiators. The ban suggests a moment of moral panic, and possibly the clearest proof yet that female gladiators were a real ...

This mosaic depiction of a topless woman whipping a leopard might've proved the existence of female gladiators. Twas beauty who killed the beast. An 1,800-year-old mosaic fragment featuring a topless ...

What if women were hidden among the ranks of Ancient Rome’s fearsome gladiators? A group of experts searches for evidence to prove women once fought in the arena just like men. Combining history, ...

The Roman Empire is famous for its arenas like the Colosseum where gladiators fought each other in gory skirmishes. But were any of these gladiators ever women? Several lines of evidence, including ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...