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

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...

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

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 ...

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

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

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

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

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., ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, morphed into an archaeological dig, and it wasn’t long before experts ...