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

Now, a shattered skull from Serbia tells the chilling story of one such combatant: a brown bear who lived, suffered, and died ...

La Brújula Verde reported that the literary history of brown bears is now backed up with a bone. Specifically, the ...

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

Lions and tigers and bears, oh yes! In the dust of an ancient Roman arena in Serbia, archaeologists have uncovered a ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...

Life for women in ancient Rome was a mix of privilege, pressure, and strict expectations. From beauty secrets involving ...

Anyhoo, now that I'm back hard at work — you know, clicking around the internet looking for funny photos — I discovered a ...

You can’t imagine yourself jeering at a public execution of old. So, why are you laughing with the online humiliations that ...

Director Ridley Scott has been bombarded by fans begging him to stop working on Gladiator 3. The world-famous director, 87, ...

The flip-flop mosaic decorated the floor of a cold pool room in the villa's bath complex. Parco Archeologico di Morgantina e Villa Romana del Casale In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Italy, ...

Offering a very different kind of thrill to what theme park goers are normally served up, Oxfordshire-bound French attraction ...