Gladiator II is now in cinemas and continues the story of Maximus Decimus Meridius' son Lucius, but is Russell Crowe back as Maximus?

It has been 24 years since Ridley Scott gave the world a glimpse of the Roman Empire in Gladiator. The film over the years has attained cult status and is lauded by one and all.

A 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle shaped like a gladiator that was discovered in northern England will go on public display for the first time, the charity English Heritage said on Friday. Two divers found the well-preserved object in 1997 in the River Tyne at Corbridge near Hadrian's Wall,

It's rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian's Wall have just found a 2,000-year-old knife handle depicting a left-handed fighter.

A rare Roman knife handle cast in the shape of a gladiator discovered at a Northumberland Hadrian's Wall site could be evidence that gladiators were huge celebrities on the northern edge of the ancient empire.