The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Archaeologists recently made a colossal discovery: an ancient Roman mass grave ... "They have various different battle wounds, which rules out execution. It is truly a battlefield," Vienna ...

Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of a fierce battle between a Roman gladiator and a lion, rewriting our understanding of ancient combat spectacles. The discovery, made at Driffield ...

What else would one expect in a massive ancient Roman cemetery for military horses ... no signs of dying in a major event, such as a battle or an epidemic, the department’s head archaeologist ...

Based on the location of the graveyard, its age and scale, archaeologists concluded the horses belonged to an ancient Roman military unit stationed in the area during the second century A.D., ...