The discovery of coins and jewelry in the Czech Republic worth up to $680,000 raises a tantalizing mystery for historians and ...

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

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes, the museum said. An X-ray of the scabbard of ..

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...