According to a translated statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the three tombs —discovered in the ...

and some (particularly those with the crosses on the lids) tied to the eighth century. “We know from the inscription on the tomb that it was first used for gladiators,” Mimaroglu told Live ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a 1,800-year-old sarcophagus with inscriptions indicating it belonged to a Roman gladiator named Euphrates. But instead of finding the gladiator's remains ...