The secutor gladiator depicted on the knife handle wears ... which was considered unlucky during the reign of the Roman Empire. The English Heritage charity said that this small detail means ...

This figure represents a secutor gladiator, a type of Roman fighter that was heavily armored, specialized in close-quarters combat, and was trained to fight quicker, more agile gladiators of the ...

Gladiator culture united this north-western extremity of the Roman Empire with hundreds of towns across the Roman world, from Algeria to Israel, Spain to Syria. Britannia was no rustic backwater ...