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

A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

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

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

When Ridley Scott announced a sequel to a great epic classic after 24 years, expectations were understandably high. With the ...

“(Gladiators) could become famous and could buy their ... memorialized in ancient mosaics and pottery recall the Roman Colosseum, “which would have been the classical world’s Wembley Stadium ...