IN the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire ... the General Assembly with a map of the Middle East divided between ...

Researchers now aim to uncover how lions were brought to Britain and explore further the lives of gladiators at the fringes of the Roman Empire.

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, ...

And according to a study published April 23 in the journal PLOS One, the skeleton displays the first-ever evidence of human-animal combat in Europe during the Roman Empire. Gladiator combat is a ...

He is traditionally regarded as the pope during the reign of Emperor Constantine, who legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire through the Edict of Milan. While Sylvester's direct influence on ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire. A marble relief from first- or second-century Ephesus ...

The study contributes a vital new dimension to our knowledge of Roman Britain, reinforcing the region's deep connection to the empire's entertainment traditions. These findings offer new avenues ...

This was in the year 1256, and then it was the turn of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Ayyubid dynasty of Syria, which also fell, leaving Aleppo and Damascus in his hands ... after the disintegration of ...

Until now, no direct osteological proof had ever confirmed human-animal combat in Britain — or anywhere in the Roman Empire. This is despite artistic depictions and ancient texts that told many ...

This is "the first physical evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat from the Roman period seen anywhere in Europe," the team wrote in the paper. Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Thompson et al ...