The fastest sport on two wheels thrilled fans in packed arenas across Roman lands, while the elite condemned—and exploited—the passions of the crowd. The thrill and danger of a chariot race in ...

Although myth and legend indicate that chariot racing had deep ties with Roman religion and culture when it first started hundreds of years earlier, by the time the real events depicted in Those ...

But not everyone was such a fan. Like the gladiators, chariot races were popular sports for the Roman masses, not the social elites, who disliked the mob behavior of the fans and found the sport ...

dying young in the dangerous world of chariot racing. "Those About to Die" immerses viewers in the brutal world of Roman entertainment, highlighting the intersecting lives in the grand arena.

The Roman passion for chariot racing was inherited from the Etruscans, and it later spread throughout the Roman world. In North Africa, for example, the Circus of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia ...

From Gladiator 2 gladiator and chariot race to chariot race we discover how the bloody arena fueled the Roman Empire and the introduction of the new Flavian Amphitheatre or as we know it today ...

The remains of the only known Roman chariot racing track in Britain have been found under an army barracks being redeveloped in Colchester. New homes are going up on a 209-acre site where builders ...

The site, which was the fourth largest in the Roman province of Britannia, was taken over with displays, 'chariot racing', and Roman army drills. The event comes ahead of a fresh study of the ...