For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted ...

California’s progressive Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom posted an ad bragging about California’s economy and knocking President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but then quickly deleted it after an X ...

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 defenceless, Pearce said. Pearce ...

Convicted prisoners suffered damnatio ad bestias. That the human body, a ‘temple of the Holy Spirit’, should be devoured by brute beasts was particularly abominable to Christians. "What have ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing that Google sell two of its advertising products to restore competition in the ad tech space, according to a new filing. The proposal comes after ...

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. Pearce described what ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport. But remains unearthed in England are the first physical evidence of ...

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. Pearce described ...

known as ‘damnatio ad bestias’,” they wrote. However, the “nature and scale of person-animal combat in Roman Britain is contested”. “While images survive of such confrontations ...