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

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

"The story of an orphan who would be king." ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.