Gladiator

An inevitable fact of interviewing Ridley Scott is that, whatever movie he's about to release, you'll find him already knee-deep in his next project.

Paramount Pictures unveiled gory first-look footage from "Gladiator 2" to movie theater bosses at Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas on April 11, raising cheers even as the studio and big-screen industry face uncertain times.

An accident on the set of the next "Gladiator" film, the sequel to the best picture Oscar winner from 2000, injured multiple people involved in the production.

In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance of the heavily visited ruins.

Private lodges built for the elite-class people to watch gladiator or wild animal fights shows have been unearthed in the 1800-year-old amphitheater in the ancient city of Bergama (Pergamon).

A project to build a high-tech, lightweight stage inside the Roman Colosseum will allow visitors a central viewpoint from within the ancient structure "to see the majesty of the monument," Italy's culture minister said on May 2.

Italy reopens to travellers from Europe on June 3, three months after the country went into coronavirus lockdown, with all hopes pinned on reviving the key tourism industry as the summer season begins.    

A vivid fresco depicting an armour-clad gladiator standing victorious as his wounded opponent stumbles gushing blood has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's culture ministry said Oct. 11.

A vandalism action against one of the most historically significant monuments in the world - the Colosseum. A 17-year-old Bulgarian woman was detained as she dug up her initials of the millennial amphitheater and a masterpiece of world architecture.

A Roman-era sculpture was seized by the provincial gendarmerie command in a car in the western province of Denizli's Sarayköy district. The 15x10-centimeter bronze sculpture, depicting a horse-drawn carriage with a gladiator figure, was delivered to the Denizli Museum Directorate.