While examining the first gladiator bones ever found, forensic anthropologist Fabian Kanz spots a small but unmistakable detail in a skull. Appearing to have healed, the scarring on the bone suggests ...
The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...