In addition to these common Roman weapons, gladiators also used a sword called a sica. It was a curved sword with a cutting ...

The curved-blade sword was first discovered during a 1994 ... that the sword was just one of many artifacts — from the Roman era to the late medieval period — being studied in the city's ...

A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment which ... nearly the same design of straight lines and a curved surface to help drain water away.