Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

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

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 ...

meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator show. While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs.

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

But despite those accounts and the hundreds of excavated Roman amphitheatres scattered across the ancient empire, none of the approximately 200 suspected gladiator skeletons uncovered so far have ...

This may not seem surprising to anyone who's studied ancient Roman texts, or even watched a modern gladiator movie, both of which depict a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

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. 37,127 people played ...