A skeleton of a Roman gladiator with clear traces of big cat bites has been discovered in England. This is the first evidence ...

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" ...

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

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

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 ...

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

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

Among the ancient Hebrews, men were free to take several wives; married Greek and Roman men were free to satisfy their sexual urges with concubines, prostitutes and even teenage male lovers ...