Panelists on CNN’s Inside Politics compared Donald Trump to tyrannical Roman emperor Julius Caesar after he attended a UFC ...

Gladiator II is now in cinemas, and Ridley Scott’s epic, a sequel to his 2000 Oscar winner, has yielded much comment about its homoeroticism. Certainly there is a strong sense of feminisation. Take ...

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History consultant Alexander Mariotti speaks with Yahoo UK about the criticism levelled at the sequel, and calls Ridley Scott ...

We have certain assumptions about the kind of English ancient Greeks and Romans should speak in fictional works and ...

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

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

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

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The genetic history of the aurochs, an extinct cattle species, was a mystery until scientists analyzed DNA found in the bones ...