The animal’s human rider, a Roman soldier, buried the creature in a shallow grave. As a parting gift, the soldier tucked a few mementos into the crook of one of the horse’s legs: two jugs and ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...

Telling the story of Christ’s death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don’t say how. Each of the Gospels include specific detail about the ...

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 ...

The North Korean soldiers were wearing helmets bearing the Georgian Ribbon, a symbol of the former Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. The orange and black striped ribbons on their helmets ...

Left: From the research paper: Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain ... rather than soldiers or slaves,” Malin Holst, a co-author of the study ...

It seemed as though their actions might have affected him, but the Jews were soon surrounded by Roman soldiers and Pilate threatened to “cut them down” if they continued to protest the images ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Credit: Public Domain ...