1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

When you think of gladiators, you probably picture men with swords. But in Roman arenas, the opponents gladiators faced weren ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages ...

Bite marks found in a Roman-era skeleton are the first physical evidence of “human-animal gladiatorial combat,” archeologists said in a new study. Teeth imprints of a large cat were found in the ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

Archaeologists look to have settled a long-standing debate after finding proof that Roman gladiators did, in fact, fight ...

Many ancient records detail Romans’ use of brown bears in entertainment, according to Antiquity. They were apparently trained ...

The artifacts and artworks on display paint a refreshingly broad picture of Roman life in the northern reaches of the Empire.

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman gladiators. For the first time in Europe, scientists have found physical ...

Puncture injuries by large felid scavenging on both sides of bone. A skeleton from Roman-era England has bite marks consistent with those of a large cat like a lion, suggesting that this individual ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim attacked ...