Now, experts in Italy have found the final resting ... It's thought there were thousands of individual gladiators in Roman history, with the first recorded Roman gladiator games in the 3rd century ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens ... With his life under threat, he invaded Italy. Over the next few years, he defeated ...

Naples Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Over 2,200 years ago, the Republic of Rome founded a colony called Liternum on Italy ... the first Roman emperor, around 27 B.C.E ...