History professors and warfare experts rate the realism of "300," "Braveheart," "House of the Dragon," and other media.

Provence is a world-famous region that entices visitors with its idyllic countryside, historic towns, and charming villages ...

Throughout its long history, Rome achieved numerous military victories that allowed it to grow, expand, and dominate nearly ...

The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 dig at the Driffield Terrace cemetery in York, one of the only known Roman-era burial grounds thought to have been used for gladiatorial combatants.

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality comes not from the heart of Italy, but from a quiet field in Yorkshire.

Image: An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a gladiator fighting a lion. Pic: Reuters Academics said the bones showed distinct lesions and were identified as coming from a large cat, probably a lion ...

Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars, which ended in 146 B.C. after a brutal siege ... of the ancient worlds beyond simplistic narratives of us and them, or Roman and ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome. This discovery, published in ...

For one resident of the ancient Roman Empire, who met a violent demise around 1,800 years ago, archaeologists have found the first record of its kind scarred into his bones: he was mauled by a lion, ...

In Anzio, you can sunbathe or dip into the clear-blue sea next to the ruins of an Ancient Roman imperial villa and the Grottoes of Nero. The archaeological site is, quite literally, part of 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 ...

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 ...