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 ...

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.

Tales of gladiators going head-to-head with ferocious lions in ancient Rome ... rather a Roman cemetery in York, England. It turns out that the city, famous for its massive gothic Minster cathedral, ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against ... It appeared that this gladiator had, at one point, ended up in the jaws of a lion. “The analysis of the lesions on skeleton 6DT19 provides ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

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 ...