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

Specifically, the archaeologists discovered a “fragmented bear skull” in a Roman amphitheater in the city of Viminacium, which is in Serbia, according to La Brujula Verde. According to the publication ...

The fossilized remains of a brown bear were discovered near the Viminacium amphitheater in Serbia, a Roman gladiator.The male ...

It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...