Ridley Scott's historical epic sequel, Gladiator II, finds strong streaming success after a respectable yet underwhelming box ...

but it could never live up to Ridley Scott's magnificent sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, which rightly won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. The tale of Roman ...

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

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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.

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

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

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.