The travel experience will allow visitors to "suit up in historically accurate armor and put their skills to the test to determine their fate in battle" Airbnb Officials in Rome are not happy ...

Airbnb is attempting to kick off gladiator fights in Rome's historic Colosseum after 2,000 years, but local lawmakers in the Italian city are not impressed. In a press release on November 13, the ...

Anyone who’s seen the movie Gladiator (2000) knows that the ancient Romans loved a good spectacle, especially if it involved a fight to the death. But it turns out just throwing fighters (man or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indeed, classics professor Dr Shadi Bartsch recently described some elements of the film as "total Hollywood bulls***." However, ...

Lots of moments from “Gladiator II” are fiction. But some scientists think mock naval battles in the Colosseum totally happened. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The Movies.” To ...

The Colosseum is the most recognizable building surviving from the ancient world, and one specific claim about it has proved unusually durable: that the Romans filled it with water and staged naval ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are also scenes hinted at here of scarcely imaginable scale and grandeur that seem to have come straight from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indeed, classics professor Dr Shadi Bartsch recently described some elements of the film as “total Hollywood bulls***.” However, ...