When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...

Dave Yoder The floor of the colosseum, where you might expect ... conjunction with only one spectacle—a naval battle held on a lake east of Rome in A.D. 52—and was probably a bit of inspired ...

Question for Goldman: How many people lived in Rome when the ... flooding it for mock sea battles? ~Marc Answer: There has always been a debate about whether the Colosseum itself was ever used ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Question for Goldman: How many people lived in Rome when the ... flooding it for mock sea battles? ~Marc Answer: There has always been a debate about whether the Colosseum itself was ever used ...