Indeed, Pompeii’s very destruction is what has ... More than a dozen other such helmets have been unearthed in the gladiators’ barracks, along with assorted weaponry. Also discovered there ...

Oxford suggest the letters on the stamp are probably identical to those on a gladiator helmet found in the famous gladiatorial barracks in Pompeii itself (buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD).

Children’s sketches of violent scenes of gladiators and hunters battling animals have been uncovered at the archaeological park of Pompeii, the park’s superintendent has said. The drawings ...