Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

(Reuters) -In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, ...

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

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

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

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

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...