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

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

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 ...

While the Romans documented fights between humans ... and whose role was filled by volunteers or slaves. “(Gladiators) could become famous and could buy their freedom, so we have a better ...

You don't have to be one of those people who can't go a single day without thinking about the Roman Empire to know about the gladiators who played a ...