Once Maximus enters the Colosseum, the action intensifies, beginning with the magnificent reenactment of the Battle of Zama.

Re-enactors await their turn in battle ... “The contours were typical of a gladiator school,” Neubauer says. The layout spanned 30,000 square feet and conformed to a marble fragment showing ...

“It is certainly trivializing the life and death of gladiators and many more ... with the archaeological team from the museum ...