A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

Step into ancient history, scaled down. This tilt-shift video spotlights the mighty Colosseum and its surroundings in ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

A Roman-era skeleton, unearthed in York, England, has provided the first physical evidence that British gladiators engaged in deadly battles not just with each other but with ferocious big cats. The ...

His remains were buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago in what archaeologists believe to be a “gladiator graveyard ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena battles.