When you think of gladiators, you probably picture men with swords. But in Roman arenas, the opponents gladiators faced weren’t always human. Sometimes they were wild animals dragged from the forests ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

Excavations in a southern Italy town revealed ancient fortified walls that fell to a Roman siege. CNR ISPC (Archaeological Mapping Laboratory) Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the ...