The gladiator helmet I’ve just put on, though, is stifling. A replica of the head protection worn by a Roman gladiator almost 2,000 years ago, the dented, scratched helmet weighs more than 13 ...

The hunk of metal was initially dismissed, but further examination revealed its true identity: The artifact was a 2,000-year-old Roman ... printed replica using a scan of the ancient helmet.

A replica gladiator helmet in a museum in Frankfurt The conclusions ... graves of 22 gladiators from about 1,800 years ago in the Roman town of Ephesus, now in Turkey. The bones revealed that ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact ...

Ironically Honorius’s rule would also see the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths, one of many events that would eventually culminate in the end of the Western Roman Empire. This gladiator helmet ...

Thracian gladiators wore helmets like the one depicting a palm tree and carried a short sword, the sica. It is important to remember that one of the anti-Roman Jewish sects active at the end of ...

Clockwise from top left: Roman mosaic of a retiarius versus a secutor; Roman bronze gladiator helmet, Italy; Roman gladiator fresco, Pompeii, Italy While some ancient written sources describe ...

By Megan Specia Reporting from London The tiny copper gladiator stands ready for battle, decked out in a helmet and armor ... the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. The knife handle remained ...

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