Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an actual Roman emperor, in the 2000 hit starring Russell Crowe, the new characters ...

When it came to bringing Maximus’ breastplate to life, the team spared no detail. After acquiring an original from the first ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

Gladiator II follows in the footsteps of the first Gladiator movie by featuring many characters based on or inspired by real ...

The arrival of wasps is an easy way to ruin a backyard gathering. Luckily, with the strategic placement of Roman chamomile, ...

In an archaeological first, scientists have scraped the organic residue within a 2,000-year-old head-shaped drinking vessel, ...

The second episode of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Fox Nation series "The Saints" focuses on John the Baptist, a ...

Virgil’s epic Roman poem, The Aeneid, is referenced in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, but how does it tie into Lucius’ heroic ...

Take The Odd Couple, make one of the roommates a woman and the other a gay man and you'd have a pretty good sense of the ...

Public schools in Texas now have the option to use a new, state-written curriculum infused with Bible stories after the state ...

At the Vatican, Pope Francis celebrates Christ the King Sunday, urging young Catholics to embrace authentic faith and lasting Christian love.

Kevin Smith turned the movie theater he grew up going to into a shrine to his filmography. It's also the setting of his ...