The discovery illustrates how gladiatorial spectacles, often presented by emperors and other luminaries, that included wild ...

The man, estimated to be 26 to 35 years old at the time of death, appears to have lived during the 3rd century AD, when ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

Under the rule of the Severan dynasty - an African-born emperor who likely brought animals from his homeland - York would’ve been the perfect stage for the gruesome pageantry of damnatio ad ...

Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but these particular offenses were considered so serious under Roman law that penalties ranged from heavy fines and permanent exile to hard labor in the salt ...

Animals sometimes were used as agents of execution for captives and criminals - known in Latin as damnatio ad bestias - in which the victim was bound or defenseless, Pearce said. A VIOLENT DEATH ...