The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Christianity, Tom Holland's books offer a modern lens on ancient history. Here, we rank ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" or "things that happened") that the three groups conspi ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

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

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

Good old Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) in his Early History of Rome, Vol. I, tells us that “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” and ...

The Bible doesn’t describe Jesus being nailed to a cross. Telling the story of Christ’s death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don’t say how. Each of ...