Spain is famous for its sun-soaked beaches, Moorish architecture, and Gothic cathedrals, but its roots stretch even deeper.

The mechanics of chariot racing involved some challenging physics ... As Greece’s “Golden Age” of theater experienced its descent, Roman comedy began to find its footing.

It depicts a chariot race involving Greek mythological figure Pelops, who is racing to win the hand of love interest Princess Hippodamia. A Roman mosaic depicting a mythical chariot race has been ...

And it tells their story through the lens of Rome’s public games: chariot racing, gladiators ... to Mary Beard’s excellent podcast Being Roman, you’ll have heard author Robert Harris ...

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 ...

Laser beams have revealed unknown structures, including the remains of a circus that hosted horse-drawn chariot races, that were once part of a sprawling Roman city hidden in what is now northern ...

To read more about chariot racing in the Greco-Roman world, go to "The Story of the Horse: Sport and Spectacle." Location of the circus at the site of the Roman city of Iruña-Veleia, Álava ...

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 ...

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 ...