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“Death Gates” Discovered in Perge Stadium Reveal Roman Execution Arena in Turkey
Archaeologists working at Perge Ancient City have uncovered a striking architectural system—five interconnected “death gates”—revealing that the city’s monumental stadium was later transformed into a Roman execution arena. The discovery fundamentally reshapes how the structure is understood. What was once built for athletic competition appears to have been deliberately reengineered in Late Antiquity to stage…
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Lost Roman Mosaic May Preserve the Only Known Image of a Female Beast Hunter
A Roman mosaic destroyed more than a century ago is reshaping what historians thought they knew about women in the arena. Long treated as a damaged curiosity from ancient Reims, the work is now being reinterpreted as the only known visual depiction of a female beast hunter, or venatrix, in the Roman world. The reassessment,…